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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 CCX.

[Does Shakespeare juster praise obtain]

SUB JUDICE LIS EST.

Does Shakespeare juster praise obtain,
In comic or in tragic vein?

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Nor I, nor you, nor all mankind,
Can answer to this question find.
Nature, tho' oft in frolic fits,
Discoveries elsewhere she permits,
Will still that point unsettled keep,
As long, as men can laugh or weep.