The Scribleriad : an heroic poem. In six books.

  • Richard Owen Cambridge
Date:
1751
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Credit: The Scribleriad : an heroic poem. In six books. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A Sigh from his unwilling Bofom broke j Then thus, collected in himfelf, he fpoke : 125 Illuftrious Souls of Munjler and of Greece ! Tho’ here at once my Hopes and Suit’rings ceafe ; Nor fhall I, like my Anceftors at home, My Country polifhwith the labor’d Tome; Nor by my Travel (as the Samian Sage 130 Enlighten’d Greece) inftrudt the prefent age ; Revive the long-loft arts of ancient War. The deathful Scorpion, and the fcythe-girt Car ; Or (hare, with Numa, Civic Fame, and found # * Old Plato’s Patriot Laws on modern ground: 135 Thefe deep-laid fchemes tho’ Saturn sWrath o’erthrow, (His anger riling as my honors grow) Virtue fhall yet her fure reward receive, And one great Deed my dying Fame retrieve. Then, thrice invoking each aulpicious name, 140 Thro’ the light reed he fpreads the wafting flame3 The melted gums, in fragrant volumes rife. And waft a various incenfe to the Ikies; The L. 125. Illuftrious Souls c/Munfter and 0/Greece!] Scriblerusys Father was of Muvfter. See Memoirs of Scribkrus? the Beginning,
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