Homer Alamode, The Second Part, In English Burlesque Or, a Mock-Poem upon the Ninth Book of Iliads. Invented for the Meridian of Cambridge, where the Pole of Wit is elevated by several degrees |
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To his Friend Anthony Le-Nobody, ON HIS Mock-Poem.
Scarron's a Fool, and Hudibras
He is, what is he? why an Ass.
And so's Leander's bawdy Poem,
And Maronides, if you know'um.
And other Folio's I ne'r saw,
Written by Lovers of ha-haw.
If but compar'd to what here comes,
I say, they are but meer Tom-thumbs!
And this I'm sure, though they're all vext,
You have kept closest to your Text;
And though they Somebodies would be,
They're Nothing, Nobody, to thee.
He is, what is he? why an Ass.
And so's Leander's bawdy Poem,
And Maronides, if you know'um.
And other Folio's I ne'r saw,
Written by Lovers of ha-haw.
If but compar'd to what here comes,
I say, they are but meer Tom-thumbs!
You have kept closest to your Text;
And though they Somebodies would be,
They're Nothing, Nobody, to thee.
Philippo-Hudibrantio-Love-Witto.
Dat. Scarronv-ottonia, Anno Risûs inventi, 5677.
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