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Are fiird with hints, and interlin'd, Himself can hardly read 'em. Each atom by some other struck. All turns and motions tries ; Till in a lump together stuck. Behold a poem rise : — — —* I ■ I I I iii T ill l I I I I II 11 * See the former poeuL Digitized by Google DR SWIFT TO MR POPB. . dOS Yet to the Deao hk share allot; He claimi^ it by a canon ; That without which a thing is not^ Is, causa sine qud non. Thus, Pope, in vain you boast your wit ; For, had our deaf divine Been for your convers...ation fit. You had not writ a line. Of Sherlock *, thus, for preaching fam'd. The sexton reaspn'd well j And justly half the merit claim'd. Because he rang the bell. A LOVE POEM, FROM A PHYSICIAN TO HIS MISTRBSS. WRITTEN AT LONOOX. By poets we are well assured That love, alas ! can ne'er be cur'd: A complicated heap of ills. Despising boluses and pills. Ah ! Chloe, this I find is true. Since first I gave my heart to you. Now, by yoyr cruelty hard bound, I strain my guts, my colon wound. » The Dtan of St Paul's, father to the bishop.— H.
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