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EPIGRAM BY MR. BOWYER.
'IN SYLLABAM LONGAM IN VOCE VERTIGINOSUS[1] A D. SWIFT CORREPTAM.'
MUSARUM antistes, Phœbi numerosus alumnus,
Vix omnes numeros Vertiginosus habet.
Intentat charo capiti vertigo ruinam:
Oh! servet cerebro nata Minerva caput.
Vertigo nimium longa est, divine poeta;
Dent tibi Pierides, donet Apollo, brevem.
EPIGRAM BY MR. BOWYER.
INTENDED TO BE PLACED UNDER THE HEAD OF GULLIVER, 1733.
"HERE learn, from moral truth and wit refined,
How vice and folly have debased mankind;
Strong sense and humour arm in virtue's cause;
Thus her great votary vindicates her laws:
While bold and free the glowing colours strike;
Blame not the picture, if the picture's like."
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