Scripscrapologia or, Collins's Doggerel Dish Of All Sorts. Consisting of Songs Adapted to familiar Tunes, And which may be sung without the Chaunterpipe of an Italian Warbler, or the ravishing Accompaniments of Tweedle-Dum or Tweedle-Dee. Particularly those which have been most applauded in the author's once popular performance, call'd, The Brush. The Gallimaufry garnished with a variety of comic tales, quaint epigrams, whimsical epitaphs, &c. &c. [by John Collins] |
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THE METAMORPHOSES OF FAT AND LEAN. |
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THE METAMORPHOSES OF FAT AND LEAN.
Two Attornies, one Day, met a Waggon and Team,And, as Lawyers for Laughter can soon find a Theme,
Of the Driver they ask'd, in a bantering Vein,
Why his fore Horse was fat and the Rest were all lean?
When, to shew that two Sharps may be foil'd by a Flat,—
“Why 'tis true, (says the Fellow) old Dumbling's main fat;
But before he got into a Horse's Employ here,
'Tis said that the puff-bellied Rogue was a Lawyer,
And the Rest, they could never in Bulk be such Giants,
Because heretofore the poor Beasts were all Clients!”
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