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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Some think the Stars our diff'rent Fates dispense,
But how, is yet unknown to human Sense;
For what wise Albumazar can presage,
When Wit shall reign and Folly quit the Stage?
And both the Houses to their credit raise,
Instead of monstrous Farces, moral Plaies?
When these new changes shall surprise the Town,
And Poets only father what's their own,
Then shall repeated Plaudets let us see,
Which angry Bard shall most regarded be,
Heroick Durgen, or Dramatick The ------
But how, is yet unknown to human Sense;
For what wise Albumazar can presage,
When Wit shall reign and Folly quit the Stage?
And both the Houses to their credit raise,
Instead of monstrous Farces, moral Plaies?
When these new changes shall surprise the Town,
And Poets only father what's their own,
Then shall repeated Plaudets let us see,
Which angry Bard shall most regarded be,
Heroick Durgen, or Dramatick The ------
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