Parodies of Ballad Criticism (1711-1787) / A Comment Upon the History of Tom Thumb, 1711, by William / Wagstaffe; The Knave of Hearts, 1787, by George Canning

by William Wagstaffe; George Canning

Whose Fame lives here in England still,

Among the Country sort,

Of whom their Wives and Children small,

Tell Tales of pleasant Sport.

So Ovid;

——Luctus monumenta manebunt

Semper Adoni mei, repetitaq^ue mortis Imago

Annua plangoris peragit simulamina Nostri.

Nor is this Conclusion unlike one of the best Latin Poems this Age has produc'd.

Tu Taffi Æternum vives, tua munera Cambri