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For should you give him once the reins,
High up in air he'll turn your brains;
And if you should his fury check,
'Tis ten to one he breaks your neck.

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DR. SWIFT wrote the following Epigram on one Delacourt's complimenting Carthy, a Schoolmaster, on his Poetry.

EPIGRAM.

CARTHY, you say, writes well — his genius true;
You pawn your word for him — he'll vouch for you.
So two poor knaves, who find their credit fail,
To cheat the world, becomes each other's bail.

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WRITTEN BY DR. SWIFT,

ON HIS OWN DEAFNESS.

VERTIGINOSUS^[1], inops, surdus, male gratus amicis;
Non campana sonans, tonitru non ab Jove missum,
Quod mage mirandum, saltem si credere fas est,
Non clamosa meas mulier jam percutit aures.

1. The second syllable "Vertiginosus" is here made short by the dean; perhaps the more expressive of the malady it describes, as "steteruntque comæ" in Virgil.Bowyer.

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