Poems on several occasions by the right honourable the E. of R-

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Poems on several occasions by the right honourable the E. of R-
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Rochester, John Wilmot, Earl of, 1647-1680.
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Printed at Antwerpen :: [s.n.,
1680?]
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My Lord All-Pride.

BUrsting with Pride, the loath'd Impostume swells, Pr-k him, he sheads his Venom strait, and smells; But 'tis so lewd a Scribler, that he writes, with as much forch to Nature, as he fights, Hardned in shame, 'tis such a baffled Fop, That ev'ry Scool-boy whips him like a Top: And with his Arme, and Head, his Brains so weak, That his starved fancy, is compell'd to take, Among the Excrements of others wit, To make a stinking Meal of what they shit. So Swine, for nasty Meat, to Dunghil run, And toss their gruntlinst Snowts up when they've done: Again his Stars, the Coxcomb ever strives. And to be something they forbid, contrives. With a Red Nose, Splay Foot, and Goggle Eye, A Plough Mans, looby Meene, Face all a wry, With stinking Breath, and ev'ry loathsome mark, The Punchianello, sets up for a Spark, With equal self conceit too, he bears Arms, But with that vile success, his part performs,

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That the Burlesques his Trade, and what is best In others, turns like Harlequin, in jest.
So have I seen at Smithfields wondrous Fair, When all his Brother Monsters, florish there; A Lubbard Elephant, divert the Town, With making Legs, and shooting off a Gun. Go where he will, he never fiends a Eriend, Shame, and derision, all his steps attend; Alike abroad, at home, 'ith Camp, and Court, This Knight, o'th Burning Pestle, make us sport.
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