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VGW(PA.737.006
14-21 Jan 1737:41, 42 (25)
January 12, 1736-7. To Mr. Parks, Sir, I should take it as
a favour, if you'll give the following song a place in your
next paper. It is a Revenge, long since due to good sense
and fine writing; which have been used in a most barbarous
and inhumane manner by the Monitor. I can only assure you,
that ill-nature had no hand in the composition; and that the
author was never in a better humour in his life, than while
he was writing it. It would be injustice to a chirurgeon,
to accuse him of ill-nature, when necessity obliges him to
probe deeply and roughly into a wound. As therefore it is a
necessary work, to clear the world of that worst kind of
vermin, scribblers, I hope the publick-spiritedness of the
design, may be some excuse for any failure in the execution.
I am, Sir, Your constant reader, and subscriber. [signed]
Zoilus.
THE MONITOR ADMONISHED: A NEW SONG:
To the tune of, To all ye Ladies Now at Land. . . .
[1 line in Latin]
I, who long since did draw my pen
In injur'd wit's defence,
Am now alass! compell'd again
To succour common sense:
For sure it never suffer'd more,
Than lately by the Monitor. with a fa la.
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