The Paxtoniade - 5
Who fear’d neither Turk, Jew, Christian, or Pagan:
Whom tho’ on Account of some unhappy flaws
In their outward behavior, the hard-hearted Laws
Had sentenc’d, to seek in these western Plantations
A better reception and kind habitations;
Notwithstanding I say this cruel rejection,
Yet still for the K----k they retain’d their affection;
And by her instructions were most fitly train’d
To perform with eclat, such a glorious, Command
As hawks that are wont less birds to infest;
And bare home the prey to the young in their nest,
Teach them in their turn the birds to invade,
And depend for support on the very same trade.
*THIS being done with nimble speed,
O'Haro mounted on his Steed,
(Descendant of that self-same Ass;
That bore his Grandsire Hudibras.)
And from that same exalted Station,
Pronounc’d an hortory Oration:
For he was cunning as a fox,
Had read o’er Calvin and Dan Nox;
A man of most profound Discerning
Well vers’d in P-------------- n Learnig.
So after heming thrice, to clear
His Throat, and banish thoughts of fear;
And of the mob obtaining Silence,
He thus went on-------’Dear Sirs, awhile since,
* Doubt not, Gentle Reader, thou art very much surprized at this subitaneous change in our Poets versification; but hear what he says in vindication of his Conduct: If a man says, he begins a Journey in a Chair, but finds the roads so intollerably muddy that he can proceed no faster than a barefooted pilgrim on the Sand, and besides, is perhaps equally tir’d with his vehicle, is it not lawful for him to swap his Chair for the first Horse he can meet with, and ride him to the end of his journey! Scriblerus.
