The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift/Volume 8/On Stephen Duck

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An excellent new Ballad on the true English Dean

The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, Volume 8
(1730)
by Jonathan Swift, edited by Thomas Sheridan, John Nichols, John Boyle, Patrick Delany, John Hawkesworth, Deane Swift, William Bowyer, John Birch, and George Faulkner

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Jonathan Swift1568242The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, Volume 8
— On Stephen Duck1730Thomas Sheridan, John Nichols, John Boyle, Patrick Delany, John Hawkesworth, Deane Swift, William Bowyer, John Birch, and George Faulkner

ON STEPHEN DUCK,
THE THRESHER AND FAVOURITE POET.

A QUIBBLING EPIGRAM. 1730.

THE thresher Duck could o'er the queen prevail,
The proverb says, "no fence against a flail."
From threshing corn he turns to thresh his brains;
For which her majesty allows him grains:
Though 'tis confest, that those, who ever saw
His poems, think them all not worth a straw!
Thrice happy Duck, employed in threshing stubble!
Thy toil is lessen'd, and thy profits double.

The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift/Volume 8/On Stephen Duck

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