...dinner-time. Is there a parson, much bemused in beer, A maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, A clerk, foredoomed his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza when he should engross 1 Is there, who, locked from ink and paper, scrawls With desperate charcoal round his darkened walls...

...the man of rhyme, Happy ! to catch me, just at dinner-time. Is there a parson much be-mused in beer, A maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, A clerk, foredoom'd...desperate charcoal round his darken'd walls? All fly to TWIC'NAM, and in humble strain Apply to me, to keep them mad or vain. Arthur, whose giddy son neglects...

...there; translated by him into English Terse," 1641. Prynne literally verifies Pope's description— " Is there who lock'd from ink and paper, scrawls With desperate charcoal round his darken'd walls ?" We have also a catalogue of printed books written by Wm. Prynne, of Lincoln's-Inn, Esq., in these...

...he was entered as a student of the Middle Temple, and far from proving himself " A clerk fore-doomed his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza when he should engross," devoted himself assiduously to the study in its most enlarged and liberal view, and not merely as a...

...Line 12 Is there a parson much bemused in beer, A maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, A clerk foredoomed his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza when he should engross. Line 15, Friend to my life, which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song. Line...

...he was entered as a student of the Middle Temple, and far from proving himself " A clerk fore-doomed his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza when he should engross," devoted himself assiduously to the study in its most enlarged and liberal view, and not merely as a...

...in his love of transiatedbyhi. into English ' 1641 *VI™e 1iterally verifies F0pe'S descnptlon" IB there who lock'd from ink and paper, scrawls With desperate charcoal round his darken d walls ! We have also a catalogue of printed hooks written hy Wm. Prynne, of Inncoln's-Inn,...

...the man of rhyme, Happy! to catch me, just at dinner-time. Is there a parson much be-mused in beer, A maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, A clerk, foredoom'd...desperate charcoal round his darken'd walls? All fly to TWIC'NAM, and in humble strain Apply to me, to keep them mad or vain. Arthur, whose giddy son neglects...

...the man of rhyme, Happy ! to catch me just at dinner-time. Is there a parson much bemused in beer, A maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, A clerk, foredoom'd...and paper, scrawls With desperate charcoal round his darken' d walls * John Searle, Pope's servant. t Formerly a sanctuary for insolvent debtors in Southwait....

...serious business of life in an Advocate's or law-agent's office in Aberdeen. He was not, perhaps, ' A clerk foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza when he should engross.' He even derived some benefit afterwards from a little acquaintance with the language of law-process...