Epistle From Esopus To Maria
worse than woolwich hulks:
though there, his heresies in churd state
might well award him muir and palmer's fate:
still she undaunted reels and rattles on,
and dares the public like a noontide sun.
what sdal called maria's jaunty stagger
the ricket reeling of a crooked swagger?
whose spleen (e'en worse than burns' venom, when
he dips in gall unmix'd his eager pen,
and pours his vengean the burning line,)—
who christen'd thus maria's lyre-divine
the idiot strum of vanity bemus'd,
and even the abuse of poesy abus'd?—
who
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