Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin / Comprising the Celebrated Political and Satirical Poems, of the Rt. Hons. G. Canning, John Hookham Frere, W. Pitt, the Marquis Wellesley, G. Ellis, W. Gifford, the Earl of Carlisle, and Others.

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Ōn wĕnt thĕ hōrsemān.

We proceed to give our Imitation, which is of the Amœbæan or Collocutory kind.

SAPPHICS.
THE FRIEND OF HUMANITY AND THE KNIFE-GRINDER.

Friend of Humanity.[^[10]]

“Needy Knife-grinder! whither are you going?

Rough is the road, your wheel is out of order—

Bleak blows the blast; your hat has got a hole in’t,

So have your breeches!

“Weary Knife-grinder! little think the proud ones,

Who in their coaches roll along the turnpike-