The old serpent's reply to The electrical eel / [by James Perry].

Date:
L,DCC,LXXVII. [i.e., 1777]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The old serpent's reply to The electrical eel / [by James Perry]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Peg Woffington of ftanding fame. For *** once confefs’d a flame. With lewd ideas big: He came—he flaw---he * overcame. But while beneath flie own'd her flame. She call’d the Eel—a Grig, Is there a wife of Britain's ihore. That would have wifh'd the name of whore. Had ffie no other hope ? Our ladies ne'er had ta'en fuch riggs* Unlefs far better things than griggs: Had tempted to elope. * Veni—vidi—vici—were the words of Cae far’s letter on a victory—lovers have ufed them as emphatically, particularly when they overcame their opponent—and indeed overcame in Englifh is far more comprehenfive, than vici. How far the hero of this flanza was like Casfar, or unlike Caefar, can only be determined by Mrs. G-. t Mr. John Afh, Doctor of Laws—fays in his new dictionary, that a grigg u is a * fmall eel—or any thing below the natural fize,” Think
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