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The Poems of John Byrom

Edited by Adolphus William Ward

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XII. THE RUMP PARLIAMENT: A HISTORICAL QUESTION.


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Since Philalethes will indite no more,
John English comes to smooth the Blunder o'er.
He writes about it, and about it writes;
What he has read, and never read, recites;
Much vers'd in History, he ends his Puff:
“I might myself have made it.”—Like enough!
'Tis oft the case of learnèd Heretoforians,
Who read much History,—but no Historians.