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 CLXXXIX.
[A Scribbler thought fit, t'other day, to devise]
QUOCUNQUE MODO REM.
A Scribbler thought fit, t'other day, to devise
About Baron Monkhausen, a volume of lies:
Such a rhapsody never was made.
And this was his only design, he averr'd,
To shame for the future, by tales so absurd,
All the dealers in Rhodomontade.
About Baron Monkhausen, a volume of lies:
Such a rhapsody never was made.
And this was his only design, he averr'd,
To shame for the future, by tales so absurd,
All the dealers in Rhodomontade.
'Twas a comical scheme, if the man was sincere;
But were he or not, 'tis abundantly clear,
He forgot the perverseness of pride:
Not one in a score, who his pamphlet shall buy,
Will be half so asham'd of persisting to lie;
As jealous of being out-lied!
But were he or not, 'tis abundantly clear,
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Not one in a score, who his pamphlet shall buy,
Will be half so asham'd of persisting to lie;
As jealous of being out-lied!
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