Hair powder ; a plaintive epistle to Mr. Pitt / by Peter Pindar, esq. [pseud.] ... To which is added (with considerable augmentation), Frogmore fête, an ode for music, for the first of April.

John Wolcot

Date:: 1795

Credit: Hair powder ; a plaintive epistle to Mr. Pitt / by Peter Pindar, esq. [pseud.] ... To which is added (with considerable augmentation), Frogmore fête, an ode for music, for the first of April. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$( >5 ) Though lord of millions^ gilt with titles o*er— 1^5 A ftatue ’midft a library I—no more I He deems the butterflies of Folly, treafure ; And fhuns chafte Wisdom, for the llrumpet Pleasure. ,’Tis true, gay Pleasure courts us to the joy, While Wisdom to her fwains is always coy» 180 The brain mufl: labour^ or it proves the fport Of Wisdom’s circle, though it charm a Court, Seek we corporeal flrength ? the mine, the plough, Of Jlrong examples, furnifh us enow. Search we the fpot which mental power contains ? 185 Go where man gets his living by his brains. Had JirJl popp’d into the world, I ween, That world a very different Charles had feen. What had Charles been ?” is alk’d with wonder—Even That good, fat, honeft, fleepy {^<mStephen,\ 190 The late Lord Holland, elder brother of Mr. Fox. 4 O may Mr. Fox.$