Vagaries Vindicated; Or, Hypocritick Hypercriticks - A Poem (Paperback)

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: VAGARIES VINDICATED; MONSTROUS ' quoth Mrs. Foresight, 'Sister Frail, ' ' Your Character is crack'd, and growing stale; ' Box'd in a hackney-coach, you glide from home, c And (faugh ) to vile Intriguing-Houses roam. ' Nay answer to the Charge; ne'er stand aloof; ' If you prevaricate, behold a Proof. ' Where did you lose this Bodkin ?' Frail replies, (The golden witness glittering in her eyes, ) ' Where did I lose that Bodkin, do you say? Where did youjfind that Bodkin, Sister, pray 1 Ah, Sister, Sister, ?Sister every way In the Comedy of Love for Lout, oue Lady accuses another of incontinence; and the following sentences are extracted from their dialogue. Mr. Foresight. To be seen with a man in a hackney-coach is scandalous.?You nrver were at the War Id's End but, look you here, now, where did you lose this Gold Bodkin? Oh Sister, Sister Mr Frail. Well, if you go to that, where did you find this Bodkin ? Ob, Sister, Sister I?Sister every way Mrs. Foresight. Oh, devil on't that I could not accuse her, without Irtraying Myself See Act 3d. of the aboi-c-mcnliun'd Comedy. B Congreve, with ample Treasury of Wit, But ever fond of overdrawing it; With Brain so spurr'd, that, as full speed it goes, Footmen chop logick, Blockheads speak bon mots: So bright in style, like Phoebus scattering fog, He quite dispels dull Natures dialogue; Tell me if Congreve's Fools are Fools indeed? Pope. Congreve (how dimly, now, my Verse pourtrays Whate'er his Sun of Prose vouchsafes to blaze, ) The fragile Sisters, whom I cite, displays; Shews that backsliding, hypocritick elves, Arraigning others, once betray'd themselves. But is the World, now, grown so wondrous pure That all are modest who appear demure? Have we no sinful Saint, since Con...