Poem by Anonymous

On a Foolish Person

Jack, eating rotten cheese, did say,
“Like Samson, I my thousands slay.”
“I vow,” quoth Roger, “so you do,
And with the self-same weapon too.”

[From A Collection of Epigrams (1727).]

1. The Enchanted Island
2. Ettrick Banks
3. Lord Strafford’s Meditations in the Tower
4. The Banks o’ Glaizart
5. Barthram’s Dirge

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