A Miscellany of Poems consisting of Original Poems, Translations, Pastorals in the Cumberland Dialect, Familiar Epistles, Fables, Songs, and Epigrams, by the late Reverend Josiah Relph ... With a Preface and a Glossary |
From MARTIAL. |
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From MARTIAL.
Large gifts to wealthy batchelors you send,And call you this munificence, my friend?
Nothing so sordid and so mean: for shame
To give gross avarice such a specious name!
Thus treacherous hooks indulge the greedy prey,
And thus false baits unthinking beasts betray.
Would you munificent in earnest be?
Your gifts, Gargilianus, send to me.
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