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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ON THE Amphibious N. ELLIOT, of Oxford, Shoemaker and Poet. |
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ON THE Amphibious N. ELLIOT, of Oxford, Shoemaker and Poet.
Elliot sublime, to whom indulgent Heav'nA double trade for livelihood has given,
Whether thou turn'st the Ox's well-tann'd hide,
Or kennest L---'s soul more blackly dyed;
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Yclept or cobler neat, or tuneful poet.
Not in more order do thy stitches shine,
Than the rang'd morals of thy whiter line:
Not sharper does thy awl the leather pierce
Than the bad conscience thy satyric Verse:
Each character, cut out in newest taste,
In ev'ry point exactly fits the Last.
Beau, hypocrite, or twining fawners suits,
Emblem of pumps, of slippers, and of boots.
Of Proverb old illustrious confutor,
For thou art, ultra crepidam, a Sutor.
Oxonians swear in concert that the Nine
Thy wreaths with waxen ends conspir'd to twine.
Oft as thy Stone's great Image (strapp'd by Fate
To Time's old knee, and there ordain'd to wait
His fatal mandate, or around twirl his pin)
Shall bring the glorious Festival of Crispin,
So oft I swear, by this old Staple Leather,
Which ne'er again will grow to Tup or Weather,
Repairing to thy favour'd Cell, and plac'd
On Tripod smooth which Delphos erst had grac'd,
I'll quaff a pennyworth of ale to every Muse,
And write a pair of rhymes, and buy a pair of shoes.
Timothy Two-shoes, Of St. Giles's, Oxford.
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