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The Dance of Life

A Poem, by the author of "Doctor Syntax;%" [i.e. William Combe] Illustrated with coloured engravings, by Thomas Rowlandson
  

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Respicere exemplar vitæ morumque Jubebo
Doctum Imitatorem, et veras hinc durere voces.
Interdum speciosa locis, morataque recté
Fabula nullius veneris, sine pondere et arte,
Valdiùs oblectat populum, meliusque moratum,
Quam versus inopes rerum, nugœque canorœ.
Hor. Ars. Poet.