Mr. Cooke's Original Poems with Imitations and Translations of Several Select Passages of the Antients, In Four Parts: To which are added Proposals For perfecting the English Language |
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Of ARRIUS.
When Arrius should the Word commodious name,From his distended Jaws chommodious came:
Whene'er he spoke of an insidious Slave,
He surely call'd him an hinsidious Knave;
And, when he spoke, he thought 'twas wond'rous well,
If he pronounc'd hinsidious with a Swell:
So would his Mother, and her Sire, have spoke,
And so his Grandame, when she Silence broke,
So all his Race would, I believe indeed,
Down to his Uncle, who, a Slave, was freed.
When Arrius into Syria was sent,
All Ears, which us'd to hear him, were content:
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Those Words flow smoothly, nor offend the Ear:
But, when he cross'd th'Ionian Seas again,
I've plow'd, says Arrius, the Hionian Main.
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