COUPLETS & VERSICLES 1708–1710
I. EPIGRAM.
On Poets.
Damnation follows Death in other Men,
But your damn'd Poet lives and writes agen.
II. EPIGRAM.
On Authors and Booksellers.
What Authors lose, their Booksellers have won,
So Pimps grow rich, while Gallants are undone.
III. LINES.
[Fatis agimur, cedite fatis!]
i.
Fatis agimur, cedite fatis!
Which, in our Tongue, as I translate, is,
Fate rules us: then to Fate give way!
—Now, dreadful Critic! tell me pray,
What have you against this to say?
ii.
My Pylades! what Juv'nal says, no Jest is;
Scriptus & in tergo, nec dum finitus Orestes.
