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On Mun Doyly and Fleet Shepherd, Esquires.
Fat, ruddy, and dull,
With an Inch-thick of Skull;
But false as the Bags of his Brother;
Is that Caterer for News,
In Taverns and Stews,
Mun Doyly the Son of his Mother.
With an Inch-thick of Skull;
But false as the Bags of his Brother;
Is that Caterer for News,
In Taverns and Stews,
Mun Doyly the Son of his Mother.
The great Legg hearing this,
Thought all was amiss;
And to run his Intelligence higher,
Resolv'd at a Jump,
To leven that Lump,
With Shepherd that voluble Lyar.
Thought all was amiss;
And to run his Intelligence higher,
Resolv'd at a Jump,
To leven that Lump,
With Shepherd that voluble Lyar.
What notable Tools
Are a Brace of such Fools,
In the hands of a young Politician;
When the Colonel did chuse
False Wit, and false News,
Sure he needed much more a Physician.
Are a Brace of such Fools,
In the hands of a young Politician;
When the Colonel did chuse
False Wit, and false News,
Sure he needed much more a Physician.
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Yet poor Shepherd may prove
In time, by Legg's Love,
As famous as Markham or Needham:
Or Berkinhead the Great,
Who employs all his Sweat
In witty smart Ballads (God speed him.)
In time, by Legg's Love,
As famous as Markham or Needham:
Or Berkinhead the Great,
Who employs all his Sweat
In witty smart Ballads (God speed him.)
Return to the Pot,
Thou damn'd drolling Sot,
In time, lest the Gallows attend thee;
For thou'lt ne'er make so good
A Spy as old Blood,
Tho Billing and Mead do befriend thee.
Thou damn'd drolling Sot,
In time, lest the Gallows attend thee;
For thou'lt ne'er make so good
A Spy as old Blood,
Tho Billing and Mead do befriend thee.
In Alehouses dipt,
From Oxford thou wert whipt,
For thy witty Deceits to the Tapster:
T' has e'er since been thy way,
Thy best Friends to betray;
Clancy proceeded not faster.
From Oxford thou wert whipt,
For thy witty Deceits to the Tapster:
T' has e'er since been thy way,
Thy best Friends to betray;
Clancy proceeded not faster.
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