Poem by Christopher Anstey

In Promptu

You say, my Friend, that every day
Your company forsaking,
In quest of news I haste away,
The Morning Post to take in:

But if nor news nor sense it boast,
Which all the world agree in,
I don't take in the Morning Post,
The Morning Post takes me in.

1. To the Citizens of France
2. From Wealth, from Honours, and from Courts Remov'd
3. A Parody on the Laureat's Ode
4. Lines Inscribed to the Memory of Dr. Samuel Johnson

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