Page:Boileau's Lutrin - a mock-heroic poem. In six canto's. Render'd into English verse. To which is prefix'd some account of Boileau's writings, and this translation. (IA boileauslutrinmo00boil).pdf/102

The Chanter in the most Pathetic Words
(The best his interrupting Grief affords)
Reveals the sad Misfortune To his Friends,
And his just Cause to Them and God Commends.

Plump Ev'rard only durst propose to Eat;
Ev'rard's keen Stomach did his Zeal abate;
The Canons fill'd with other Thoughts, His Vote
Vanish'd unseconded and soon forgot.
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He regularly Hem'd, then Strok'd his Beard,
And Claim'd, as Prolocutor, to be Heard.
The Learned Seer Attention might demand;
The Only Scholar in this Reverend Band!
The Learned Seer had Copious Baxter read,
And with Old Bunyan cram'd his Muddy Head.
Thus Oft, Sublime, Contiguous to the Skies,
Sacred to Dust, an Empty Garret lies;

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