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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 CCXIV.

[Grammarians!—Ye! whose critic censures maul]

AUDI ALTERAM PARTEM.

Grammarians!—Ye! whose critic censures maul
Words, syllables, letters!—pray forgive my asking,
Why we that garment “inexpressible” call,
Which our fore-fathers surnam'd “Gally-gaskin?”