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 CCXVIII.
[“'Twas not so in my time,” surly Grumio exclaims]
AUDI ALTERAM PARTEM.
“'Twas not so in my time,” surly Grumio exclaims,
When our fancies, and fashions, and follies he blames:
But your times, and our times, and all times, old Bluff!
Can shew fancies, and fashions, and follies enough!
Your taste was the formal, as ours is the flimsy:
You made Wisdom grimace; we make Elegance whimsy:
'Tis all the same foppery, drest different ways!
Yours was yesterday's nonsense; and ours is to-day's!
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