'The common shore of Paris and of Rome.'
JOHNSON.
and,
'No calling or profession comes amiss,
A needy monsieur can be what he please.'
OLDHAM.
'All sciences a fasting monsieur knows.'
JOHNSON.
The particulars which Oldham has collected, both as exhibiting the horrours of London, and of the times, contrasted with better days, are different from those of Johnson, and in general well chosen, and well exprest[343].
There are, in Oldham's imitation, many prosaick verses and bad rhymes, and his poem sets out with a strange inadvertent blunder:
'Tho' much concern'd to leave my dear old friend,
I must, however, his design commend
Of fixing in the country—.'