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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 CXCV.

[A Specimen brief of foreign wit to show]

QUOCUNQUE MODO REM.

A Specimen brief of foreign wit to show,
As far as my translating skill will go,
Tho' I can't sing—I'll say—a French Rondeau.

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‘With two black eyes—that might a saint inflame,
‘The jilt Nannette caught Strephon by surprise;
‘But when the youth, enamour'd of the dame,
‘Requested love for love, and sighs for sighs,
‘She frown'd, squall'd, cuff'd,—and sent him whence he came,
‘With two black eyes!’