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Homer Alamode, The Second Part, In English Burlesque

Or, a Mock-Poem upon the Ninth Book of Iliads. Invented for the Meridian of Cambridge, where the Pole of Wit is elevated by several degrees
  
  

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Once I was serious; but now
A merry Worm enwreaths my brow;
And in blith Rhimes (so Muse's will is)
I sing of Troy and great Achilles.
------ Semel insanivimus omnes.