The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift/Volume 7/Another Rejoinder in Jackson's Name

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The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, Volume 7
(1721)
by Jonathan Swift, edited by Thomas Sheridan, John Nichols, John Boyle, Patrick Delany, John Hawkesworth, Deane Swift, William Bowyer, John Birch, and George Faulkner

Another Rejoinder, by the Dean

Sheridan's Submission, by the Dean

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This is the tenth of twelve poems on the same subject:
1. On Dan Jackson's Picture;
2. On the same;
3. On the same;
4. On the same;
5. Dan Jackson's Defence;
6. Mr. Rochfort's Reply;
7. Dr. Delany's Reply;
8. Sheridan's Reply;
9. A Rejoinder, by the Dean;
10. Another Rejoinder, by the Dean;
11. Sheridan's Submission, by the Dean; and
12. To the Rev. Daniel Jackson.

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— Another Rejoinder, by the Dean1721Jonathan Swift

ANOTHER REJOINDER,

BY THE DEAN, IN JACKSON'S NAME.

THREE days for answer I have waited,
I thought an ace you'd ne'er have bated,
And art thou forc'd to yield, ill fated
poetaster?

Henceforth acknowledge, that a nose
Of thy dimension's fit for prose,
But every one that knows Dan, knows
thy master.

Blush for ill spelling, for ill lines,
And fly with hurry to ramines;
Thy fame, thy genius now declines,
proud boaster.

I hear with some concern you roar,
And flying think to quit the score,
By clapping billets on your door
and posts, sir.

Thy ruin, Tom, I never meant,
I'm griev'd to hear your banishment,
But pleas'd to find you do relent
and cry on.

I maul'd you, when you look'd so bluff,
But now I'll secret keep your stuff;
For know, prostration is enough
to th' lion.

The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift/Volume 7/Another Rejoinder in Jackson's Name

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