ADDRESSED TO THE GENTLEMEN REFLECTED ON IN THE ROSCIAD,
A POEM, BY THE AUTHOR
Worried with debts and past all hopes of bail,
His pen he prostitutes t' avoid a gaol.
ROSCOM.
LET not the 'hungry' Bavius' angry stroke
Awake resentment, or your rage provoke;
But pitying his distress, let virtue shine,
And giving each your bounty, 'let him dine';
For thus retain'd, as learned counsel can,
Each case, however bad, he'll new japan;
And by a quick transition, plainly show
'Twas no defect of yours, but 'pocket low',
That caused his 'putrid kennel' to o'erflow.
More verses by Oliver Goldsmith
- On The Death Of The Right Hounourable ---
- Epilogue To 'The Sister'
- From 'she Stoops To Conquer' A Song
- An Elegy On The Glory Of Her Sex, Mrs Mary Blaize
- Epilogue To 'she Stoops To Conquer'