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[A Volunteer Song

A Collection of Pieces in Verse Numbered I.-XI. By Francis Wrangham]
Wrangham, Francis (1769-1842)

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No I.
  
A VOLUNTEER SONG.
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No II.
  
ABERCROMBIE, NELSON & SMITH.
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No III.
  
A YORKSHIRE SONG.
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No IV.
  
A VOLUNTEER SONG.
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No V.
  
TIMES OF YORE.
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No VI.
  
THE DEFIANCE.
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No VII.
  
THE VISION.
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No X. EPIGRAMS.
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XI.
  
TRAFALGAR.

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2.

[All sciences a fasting Monsieur knows]

Græculus esuriens in cœlum jusseris, ibit.
Juv, Sat. III. 78.

All sciences a fasting Monsieur knows;
And, bid him go to hell, to hell he goes.
Johnson's London.

Thus Johnson, liberal translator,
Express'd the Roman poet's satire.
Time has a closer version given:—
Invading us, the Gaul scales heaven;
And, should his soul to heaven e'er stray,
By England is its shortest way.
 
Namque hac aut alia nisi quemque adjuveris arte,
Crede mihi, cœli vix bene scandet iter.
Milt. Epigr. II.
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