The Wiccamical Chaplet a selection of original poetry; comprising smaller poems, serious and comic; classical trifles; sonnets; inscriptions and epitaphs; songs and ballads; mock-heroics, epigrams, fragments, &c. &c. Edited by George Huddesford |
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THE SCUTTLE FISH.
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THE SCUTTLE FISH.
A CHARACTER.
Critics, who Nature's Depths explore,
Tell us she still in Pairs increases;
That each Sea-monster finds on shore
It's very Counterpart, like Leases.
Tell us she still in Pairs increases;
That each Sea-monster finds on shore
It's very Counterpart, like Leases.
There is a queer Fish and a cunning
Which, when his Adversary traps him,
Lets fly his Filth as he's a-running,
And in the nasty cloud escapes him,
Which, when his Adversary traps him,
Lets fly his Filth as he's a-running,
And in the nasty cloud escapes him,
By Stebbing, Wingfield, Sykes pursued,
With Scholar's learning, Critic's art,
Midst language vile and manners rude,
Not so escapes the Counterpart.
With Scholar's learning, Critic's art,
Midst language vile and manners rude,
Not so escapes the Counterpart.
This Counterpart is call'd th'Ink-s---,
In Latin, Warburtonus Noster:
Who, to avoid each Critic Writer,
Div'd in Fleet-ditch and rose in Glóster.
In Latin, Warburtonus Noster:
Who, to avoid each Critic Writer,
Div'd in Fleet-ditch and rose in Glóster.
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