Durgen Or, A Plain Satyr upon a Pompous Satyrist. Amicably Inscrib'd, by the Author, to those Worthy and Ingenious Gentlemen misrepresented in a late invective Poem, call'd, The Dunciad [by Edward Ward] |
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Nor can some loose flagitious Pens forbear
T'unman their Wit in torturing the Fair,
Exposing to our weak unguarded Youth,
Too little of their Worth, or too much Truth,
Both tending to subvert that happy state,
Which to each Man confirms a pleasing Mate;
Forgetting, that, perhaps, he makes a jest
Of his own Mother's Failings with the rest:
And thus, by early Prejudice o'ercome,
Directs, by chance, th'unlucky Satyr home.
So have I heard a poor cornuted Spouse,
With unfelt Antlers hanging o'er his Brows,
Upbraid another's Wife he scarce has known,
With odious Faults peculiar to his own.
T'unman their Wit in torturing the Fair,
Exposing to our weak unguarded Youth,
Too little of their Worth, or too much Truth,
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Which to each Man confirms a pleasing Mate;
Forgetting, that, perhaps, he makes a jest
Of his own Mother's Failings with the rest:
And thus, by early Prejudice o'ercome,
Directs, by chance, th'unlucky Satyr home.
So have I heard a poor cornuted Spouse,
With unfelt Antlers hanging o'er his Brows,
Upbraid another's Wife he scarce has known,
With odious Faults peculiar to his own.
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