The New Foundling Hospital for Wit. : Being a Collection of Several Curious Pieces, in Verse And Prose V.3/4
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None but the fat, None but the fat deferve the bouncing fair, 11. The bard of FERNEY plac'd on high Amid the tuneful choir, With flying fingers touch'd the wooden lyre : The- I 23 ] The notes, tho' lame, afcend as high As civic joys require. The fong began from G ^K's toil. Who left his Li.tchfild's native foil, (Such were his hopes of golden fpoil) King RICHARD'S crooked form belyM the man : Sublime on high-heel'd fhoes he tro.d. When firft i:e courted lady ANNE In Goodman's -Fields, till then... an unfre- quented road. As HASTINGS next round PRITCHARD's waift he curl'd, Or ihe.w'd, in DRUGGER's rags, an ideot to the world. The lifl'ning crowd admire the lofty found, A prefent SHAKESPEARE, loud they fnout around : A prefent SHAKESPEARE, loud the rafter'd halls rebound. With prlck'd up ears His May'rihip hears ; Affumes fhe play'r, Affcds to ftare. And fliaice the room about his ears. III. The praife of ven'fon, then, the rapt cnthufiaft fung; Of ven'fon, whether old or young : The jolly haunch in triumph comes ; Sound the trumpets ; beat the drums ; C 2 Flufli'd [ 24 ] Flufti'd with a purple grace.
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