The poetical and dramatic works of Sir Charles Sedley Collected and Edited from the Old Editions: With a preface on the text, explanatory and textual notes, an appendix containing works of doubtful authenticity, and a bibliography: By V. de Sola Pinto |
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LIV
UPON THE AUTHOR OF THE SATYR AGAINST WIT
A Grave Physician, us'd to write for Fees,
And spoil no Paper, but with Recipe's,
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Except that Little found among the Great;
As if he thought true Wit and Sence were ty'd
To Men in Place, like Avarice, or Pride.
But in their Praise, so like a Quack he talks,
You'd swear he wanted for his Christmas-box.
With mangled Names old Stories he pollutes,
And to the present Time past Actions suits;
Amaz'd we find, in ev'ry Page he writes,
Members of Parliament with Arthur's Knights[.]
It is a common Pastime to Write Ill;
And Doctor, with the rest, e'en take thy fill;
Thy Satyr's harmless: 'Tis thy Prose that kills,
When thou Prescrib'st thy Potions and thy Pills[.]
Go on brave Doctor, a third Volume write,
And find us Paper while you make us S---.
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