The Works of Henry Fielding - Edited by George Saintsbury in 12 Volumes $p Volume 12 by Henry Fielding
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would say something about inconstancy.
_Dash_. I can lend you a verse, and it will do very well too. "Inconstancy will never have an end." End rhimes very well with wind. _Blot_. It will do well enough for the middle of a poem. _Dash_. Ay, ay, anything will do well enough for the middle of a poem. If you can but get twenty good lines to place at the beginning for a taste, it will sell very well. _Quib_. So that, according to you, Mr Dash, a poet acts pretty much on the same principles with an oister-woman. _Dash_. Pox take your simile, it has set my chaps a watering: but come, let us leave off work for a while, and hear Mr Quibble's song. _Quib_. My pipes are pure and clear, and my stomach is as hollow as any trumpet in Europe. _Dash_. Come, the song. SONG. AIR. _Ye Commons and Peers_. How unhappy's the fate |
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