The toast An heroick poem: In four Books, Written originally in Latin, by Frederick Scheffer: Now done into English, and illustrated with Notes and Observations, by Peregrine Odonald [i.e. William King] |
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BY ------ KNAPP, Ænigmatical-Almanack Maker of the City of Cork,
Upon reading the HERMAPHRODITE OF Mr. FREDERICK SCHEFFER.
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BY ------ KNAPP, Ænigmatical-Almanack Maker of the City of Cork, Upon reading the HERMAPHRODITE OF Mr. FREDERICK SCHEFFER.
Quaint
Riddles I compose, but Scheffer brings
A nobler Verse—The British Myra sings;
The mighty Thing, which Lesbian Loves began,
Whilom the wanton Wife of every Man;
Now hap'ly form'd, in the decline of Life,
A vig'rous Gallant fit for ev'ry Wife.
Tiresias thus some sportful God employs,
Changing the Sex, to try alternate Joys.
A nobler Verse—The British Myra sings;
The mighty Thing, which Lesbian Loves began,
Whilom the wanton Wife of every Man;
Now hap'ly form'd, in the decline of Life,
A vig'rous Gallant fit for ev'ry Wife.
Tiresias thus some sportful God employs,
Changing the Sex, to try alternate Joys.
Then in sublimer Strains he tells—
What Forms and Arts from Dublin Gods have sprung.
Such Jove ne'er practis'd, nor has Ovid sung.
How wily Vol new Rules of Counting taught,
And the Glass Bottle to Perfection brought:
How Mars Beperriwig'd redeem'd his Fame,
Subdu'd a Monster, once his lovely Dame.
What Forms and Arts from Dublin Gods have sprung.
Such Jove ne'er practis'd, nor has Ovid sung.
How wily Vol new Rules of Counting taught,
And the Glass Bottle to Perfection brought:
How Mars Beperriwig'd redeem'd his Fame,
Subdu'd a Monster, once his lovely Dame.
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