Social Commentaries
An Epigram
From Poems, Chiefly Pastoral (1766)
Social Commentaries
A Member of the modern great
Pass'd Sawney with his budget,
The Peer was in a car of state,
The tinker forc'd to trudge it.
But Sawney shall receive the praise
His Lordship would parade for:
One's debtor for his dapple greys,
And t'other's shoes are paid for.
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Text from the Eighteenth Century Collections Online / ECCO-TCP transcription (TCP K093533), Poems, Chiefly Pastoral (1766).
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