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Epigram On Seeing Mr. Nutes, A Senseless, Unfeeling Fellow, Weep At The Representation Of King Lear

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Henceforth at miracles who'll dare to mock?     No wonder Orpheus' lyre could move the brutes,     Or Moses' rod strike water from the rock;     Lo! Shakspeare's genius melts the heart of Nutes,     Draws tears of pity from a barber's block!              *        *        *        *        *          A quack, a mere anatomy,          Wanting to buy a nag,          Questions his friend, a wag,          What colour it shall be:     'White,' he replies, 'let it be white, of course,     For then you'll look like Death on the pale horse.'

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