Poems on Several Occasions By Mr. George Woodward |
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TO A PAINTER Upon seeing a Certain APOTHECARY's PICTURE. |
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TO A PAINTER Upon seeing a Certain APOTHECARY's PICTURE.
Out from the Canvass these faint strokes erase,
The Picture's faulty, you've mistook the Face:
Dost think we know him, as you've drawn him thus?
There's Difference, Man! between these Folks and Us.
Come, Come, Vermilion! try your skill once more,
See! if we can't draw better than before;
Here, take your Pencil; set Don Querpo—There,
Now clap beneath his Breech an Earthen Jar:
Draw him a-working Med'cines for the P*x,
Close to his Elbow set an empty Box.
A Row of Gallypots upon the Shelf,
With Roots as old, and musty as himself:
High o'er the Quack let Poppy-Heads be strung,
And formidable Alligators hung:
Here set green Jars, with Bottles all in Rows,
With Pills, and Powders, nauseous to the Nose,
There Bladders, Drugs, and Teeth the Medley-Scene compose.
The Picture's faulty, you've mistook the Face:
Dost think we know him, as you've drawn him thus?
There's Difference, Man! between these Folks and Us.
Come, Come, Vermilion! try your skill once more,
See! if we can't draw better than before;
Here, take your Pencil; set Don Querpo—There,
Now clap beneath his Breech an Earthen Jar:
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Close to his Elbow set an empty Box.
A Row of Gallypots upon the Shelf,
With Roots as old, and musty as himself:
High o'er the Quack let Poppy-Heads be strung,
And formidable Alligators hung:
Here set green Jars, with Bottles all in Rows,
With Pills, and Powders, nauseous to the Nose,
There Bladders, Drugs, and Teeth the Medley-Scene compose.
Now Sir we've done: and I'll engage, 'twill do;
But as you draw'd—it was a Man, 'tis true;
But if this i'n't more like Him than before,
Then good Sir Paint! take my Advice no more.
But as you draw'd—it was a Man, 'tis true;
But if this i'n't more like Him than before,
Then good Sir Paint! take my Advice no more.
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