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The three tours of Doctor Syntax

In search of 1. The picturesque, 2. Of consolation, 3. Of a wife. The text complete. [By William Combe] With four illustrations

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Syntax, it seems, had heard before Of this same Artist, (with his store
Of Sketches, Drawings and Designs,
Display'd on walls and hung on lines,)
Who does to rival skill demur, And is his own Interpreter.
So he indulg'd him in his glory, And let him enter on his story.
—As he the Exhibition view'd, The Artist his discourse pursued.