Peter's prophecy, or, The president and poet, or, An important epistle to Sir J. Banks, on the approaching election of a president of the Royal Society. With an etching by an eminent artist / by Peter Pindar [pseud.].

  • John Wolcot
Date:
1788
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Peter's prophecy, or, The president and poet, or, An important epistle to Sir J. Banks, on the approaching election of a president of the Royal Society. With an etching by an eminent artist / by Peter Pindar [pseud.]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    / I 25 ] SIR J O S E P FL Zounds! Sir, the Great-ones to my whiftle come*, I have ’em ev’ry one beneath my thumb. Electors, Margraves, Princes, grace my lift, And (hall a few poor ragged rogues reftft, Becaufe (a flock of aftronomic gulls,) The cobweb mathematics cloud their fculls ? The GREAT, when beckon’d to, my caufe fhall aid. And happy think themfelves with thanks o’erpaid : Thefe fhall arife, and with a Angle frown. Beat the bold front of oppofltion down. PETE R. Thus by a word, the Showman at the Tow’r Exerts on brother lavages his pow’r; Bids Nero, C^sar, Pompey, fpread their paws, And Ihow the dangers of their gaping jaws 1