A Miscellany of Poems consisting of Original Poems, Translations, Pastorals in the Cumberland Dialect, Familiar Epistles, Fables, Songs, and Epigrams, by the late Reverend Josiah Relph ... With a Preface and a Glossary |
EPIGRAM.
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EPIGRAM.
From Martial.
Your father twenty pounds a month supplies,And gives by portions duly as you rise;
To day 'tis luxury, to morrow want,
And daily vice demands a daily grant:
The same bequeaths you all on his last bed:
Poor Philomuse! you're disinherited.
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