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The Scotiad, or Wise men of the North!!! A serio-comic and satiric poem
The Scotiad or Wise men of the North A seriocomic and satiric poem Author:Macro Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THI S C O T I A D. CANTO I. " Cosa non delta in prosa, Mai ne in rima."—Ariosto. Descend Apollo with the Nine, . . . And aid a poet's bold design, W... more »ho fain would leave the low and vile lands, To travel on your sacred highlands. , O God of numbers !—see, he smiles ; The Muses too, in dimpled wiles, " See, he smiles; The Muses too, in dimpled wiles." I am not at all surprised that the presiding deities of music should laugh at the Parnassian flight, with which this wretched bard has commenced. Among the crowd of apotheosized poets, he may surely have taken Butler or Churchill by the arm, and implored their advice. But no—now-a-days the wheeling pivot of both authors and critics turns on sequipedality, and sloud-capt vision. " Odi profanum vulgus 8c arceo."—..Edit. Attempt to stifle the infection, Which spreads in every direction, From poets of the laurell'd grove, To those who did more humbly move. " What," cry they all with one accord, " The man is mad—O Lord ! O Lord ! " To think of citing such a host " On yon indecent odious coast. " 'For Phoebus, though he plays on viol, " Objects to Scotia's fiddle-trial; " And then the ladies—some decorum, " You know, must be observ'd before 'em. " Hence straightway unto distant Thule, " Where dwells the muse of Ridicule ; " And having told your piteous story, " She '11 listen as to more before ye."— " Objects to Scotia's fddle-trial." Apollo, not having gloves, would do well to refrain from handling this contaminating instrument. Instead of tending the flocks of Admetus, his punishment may be more severe (for the introduction of such a malady among the gods): he may be imprisoned within the sulphureous caverns of Etna till a cure would be accomplished.—Author. " Yes, yes," quoth Macklin, " while below,...« less