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BEP(F.738.046
11 Dec 1738:12 (174)
Reading the unparallel'd lines on Britain's Pilot, in the
last Saturday's Gazetteer, it put me in mind of a couple of
stanzas, which, as I have heard, were made by that great wit
the Earl of Rochester, as a burlesque on the translation of
the psalms into English metre, by Hopkins and Sternhold. I
have sent them to you, in hopes you will insert them in your
next paper, which will oblige .. P.B.
Let's bore a hole in Robin's snout,
And put therein a string,
And lead him all about the town,
That folk may laugh at him;
And when we've led him all about,
And vexed him full sore,
We'll pull the string out of his snout,
And vex him so no more.
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