The Poetical Works of The Rev. Samuel Bishop ... To Which are Prefixed, Memoirs of the Life of the Author By the Rev. Thomas Clare |
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EPIGRAM CLXXXVIII.
[If you e'er go to Oxford, 'tis odds but you meet]
QUOCUNQUE MODO REM.
If you e'er go to Oxford, 'tis odds but you meet
A boar to make brawn, led in state thro' the street;
With whose fidgets the hog-driver still must comply;
If he likes to lie down, must stand patiently by;
When he rises, must help him to rise from repose;
And turn which way he turns, and go which way he goes.—
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Of the dignity, freedom, and powers of mankind;
But we add little grace to the picture they've drawn,
When we humour a pig—for the sake of his brawn!
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