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Poesis Rediviva

or, Poesie Reviv'd. By John Collop
 
 

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On Theocritus, Mosius, and Theognis.

Evnica laughs at me, who'd kisse in vain:
Cupid stings men, by Bees is stung again.
A fool may sometimes opportunely speak;
Each fool may shew this without reading Greek.
While that Pedants thus trifle time in trash,
They for their faults, not boyes deserve the lash.