London Or the Triumph of Quackery a Satirical Poem
London Or the Triumph of Quackery a Satirical Poem
Tim Bobbin
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And every night the theatre they fill. Struggling to see her lloscius redivivus. Her hot-bed actor. OF QUACKEl^Y. 47 XIX. Month after month the lucky boy Revel'd in sweets without alloy, But when (the usual fate of skill prococioiis) The favourite youth at length outgrew His boyhood, and his talent too, Fashion deserted him and farewell Roscius. Yet, pamper'd by this choice tit-bit so long, The vitiated palate of the throng, To old substantial dishes scorn'd returning. The stage, (altho' detcrm...ui'd not to throw It's pearls to hogs, ) Ne'er strove to rally them, but fed their wants With hour-long combats, horses, elephants, Cascades of real water, castles burning, Rope-dancers, swinging-monkies, rarce show. And dancing dogs. 48 TRIUMPH XX. Or if the humour of the day Requir'd a kind of patch-tvork play, A sort of Salmagundi histrionic ; Their qunckships to supply their boards, Rummag'd out all their ancient hoards. Comic and Tragic; Farcic and Harmonic; And taking from each solid joint a collop.
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