Fragments of an Ode on Punning

Fragments of an Ode on Punning (1785?)  (1780)  by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Fragments of the original text

Spelling, Avaunt!—whether in Dilworth's Chair
With sceptral Birch &c—

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Let no Man's Birth nor Birth-place give him shame!
Let no Man of the dullest Boy despair!
Since Fox's fiery Soul from HOLLAND came;
And Sheridan himself was under Par!

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