The Powers of the Pen A poem addressed to John Curre ... By E. Lloyd ... The second edition, with large additions |
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“Some Faults indeed it has beside,
“Which Honour will not let me hide.
“Trust it in no religious Work,
“It is an Infidel, or Turk;
“And will maintain it is not fit,
“God shou'd presume t'affront a Wit
“With Revelation, and to doubt
“Whether he'd Sense to find it out:
“Another Candide it will write,
“To prove that Nought that is is right.
“—But, Madam, it would ill become
“Me to advise—and I am dumb,
“When I have added, that Voltaire
“Writes with its Fellow, to a Hair—”
“Which Honour will not let me hide.
“Trust it in no religious Work,
“It is an Infidel, or Turk;
“And will maintain it is not fit,
“God shou'd presume t'affront a Wit
“With Revelation, and to doubt
“Whether he'd Sense to find it out:
“Another Candide it will write,
“To prove that Nought that is is right.
“—But, Madam, it would ill become
“Me to advise—and I am dumb,
“When I have added, that Voltaire
“Writes with its Fellow, to a Hair—”
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