Copy 1, Volume 1

The works of Peter Pindar, Esq. [pseud.] [i.e. J. Wolcot] In three volumes ... / [Peter Pindar].

  • John Wolcot
Date:
1794
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The works of Peter Pindar, Esq. [pseud.] [i.e. J. Wolcot] In three volumes ... / [Peter Pindar]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    C 2i ] ODE V. Peter quarrelleth with Fa't—Proveth its fatal inconvenieacles —Accounteth for the leannefs and rags of the Muses— Difplayeth military fcience—Telleth a wonderful Story of a Spanish Marquis—Talketh fenfibly of a greyhound, a hawk, and a race-horfe—Pointeth out the proper fubjefts for greafe. Painters and poets never fhould be fat— Sons of Apollo! liften well to that: Fat is foul weather, dims the fancy’s fight: In poverty, the wits more nimbly mufter: Thus ftars, when pinch’d by froft, call; keener luftrc On tlie black blanket of Old Mother Night. Your heavy fat, I will maintain, Is perfeft birdlime of the brain; And, as to goldfinches the birdlime clings. Fat holds ideas by the legs and wings. Fat flattens the moft brilliant thoughts. Like the buff-ftop on harpfichords, or fpinets—' Muffling their pretty little tuneful throats. That would have chirp’d away like linnets. Not