Salmagundi (Huddesford, 1791)/Epigrams
EPIGRAMS.
ON A FAVOURITE DOG, WHO REGULARLY ACCOMPANIED HIS MISTRESS TO CHURCH.
'Tis held by folks of deep research,
He 's a good Dog who goes to Church:
As good I hold Him every whit
Who stays at home and turns the Spit.
For, 'though good Dogs to Church may go,
Yet going There don't make them so.
He 's a good Dog who goes to Church:
As good I hold Him every whit
Who stays at home and turns the Spit.
For, 'though good Dogs to Church may go,
Yet going There don't make them so.
While Dick to Combs hostility proclaims,
A neighbouring taper sets his hair in flames.—
The blaze extinct, permit us to inquire:
"Were there no Lives lost, Richard, in this Fire"
A neighbouring taper sets his hair in flames.—
The blaze extinct, permit us to inquire:
"Were there no Lives lost, Richard, in this Fire"
IGNOTUM OMNE PRO MAGNIFICO.
Averse to pamper'd and high-mettled steeds,
His Own upon chopt Straw Avaro feeds:
Bred in His stable, in His paddock born,
What vast ideas They must have of Corn!
Averse to pamper'd and high-mettled steeds,
His Own upon chopt Straw Avaro feeds:
Bred in His stable, in His paddock born,
What vast ideas They must have of Corn!
A CASE OF CONSCIENCE;
SUBMITTED TO A LATE DIGNITARY OF THE CHURCH,
ON
HIS NARCOTICK EXPOSITION OF THE FOLLOWING TEXT:
"WATCH AND PRAY, LEST YE ENTER INTO TEMPTATION."
By our Pastor perplext,
How shall we determine?—
"Watch and Pray," says the Text,
"Go to sleep," says the Sermon.
How shall we determine?—
"Watch and Pray," says the Text,
"Go to sleep," says the Sermon.