The Works of the Late Aaron Hill ... In Four Volumes. Consisting of Letters on Various Subjects, And of Original Poems, Moral and Facetious. With An Essay on the Art of Acting |
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Writ on a blank Leaf of an obscene Poem.
The sacred nine, first, spread their golden wings,In praise of virtue, heroes, and of kings:
Chast were their lays, and ev'ry verse design'd,
To soften nature, and exalt the mind.
Loosely the moderns live, and loosely write,
And woo their muse, as Mistress, for delight.
Thick, in their lays, obscenities abound,
As weeds spring plenteous, in the rankest ground:
All, who write verse, to taint a guiltless heart,
Are vile profaners of the sacred art.
Cloy'd, the sick reader from the work retires,
And, e're the writer dies, his fame expires.
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