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A SATIRE ANTHOLOGY

    “_SATIRE should, like a polished razor keen,
       Wound with a touch that’s scarcely felt or seen._”
                                  --_LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU._




A Satire Anthology


    Collected by
    Carolyn Wells

    New York
    Charles Scribner’s Sons

    1905




    COPYRIGHT, 1905, BY
    CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS

    Published, October, 1905




    TO
    MINNIE HARPER PILLING




NOTE


ACKNOWLEDGMENT is hereby gratefully made to the publishers of
the various poems included in this compilation.

Those by Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Russell Lowell, John G. Saxe,
Edward Rowland Sill, John Hay, Bayard Taylor and Edith Thomas are
published by permission of Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin & Co.

The poems by Anthony Deane and Owen Seaman are used by arrangement with
John Lane.

Through the courtesy of Small, Maynard & Co., are included poems by
Bliss Carman, Charlotte Perkins Stetson-Gilman, Stephen Crane, and
Frederic Ridgely Torrence.

Poems by Sam Walter Foss are published by permission of Lothrop, Lee &
Shepherd Co.

The Century Co. are the publishers of poems by Richard Watson Gilder
and Mary Mapes Dodge.

Frederich A. Stokes Company give permission for poems by Gelett Burgess
and Stephen Crane.

“The Buntling Ball,” by Edgar Fawcett is published by permission of
Funk and Wagnalls Company; “Hoch der Kaiser” by Rodney Blake, by the
courtesy of the New Amsterdam Book Co. The poems by James Jeffrey Roche
by permission of E. H. Bacon & Co.; and “The Font in the Forest” by
Herman Knickerbocker Vielé, by permission of Brentano’s.

“The Evolution of a Name,” by Charles Battell Loomis, is quoted from
“Just Rhymes,” Copyright, 1899, by R. H. Russell.

“He and She,” by Eugene Fitch Ware, is published by permission of G. P.
Putnam’s Sons.




CONTENTS


                                                                  PAGE
    Chorus of Women                   _Aristophanes_                 3
    A Would-Be Literary Bore          _Horace_                       4
    The Wish for Length of Life       _Juvenal_                      6
    The Ass’s Legacy                  _Ruteboeuf_                    7
    A Ballade of Old-Time Ladies
      (Translated by John Payne).     _François Villon_             11
    A Carman’s Account of a Lawsuit   _Sir David Lyndsay_           12
    The Soul’s Errand                 _Sir Walter Raleigh_          13
    Of a Certain Man                  _Sir John Harrington_         16
    A Precise Tailor                  _Sir John Harrington_         16
    The Will                          _John Donne_                  18
    From “King Henry IV”              _William Shakespeare_         20
    From “Love’s Labour’s Lost”       _William Shakespeare_         21
    From “As You Like It”             _William Shakespeare_         22
    Horace Concocting An Ode          _Thomas Dekker_               23
    On Don Surly                      _Ben Jonson_                  24
    The Scholar and His Dog           _John Marston_                25
    The Manly Heart                   _George Wither_               26
    The Constant Lover                _Sir John Suckling_           27
    The Remonstrance                  _Sir John Suckling_           28
    Saintship versus Conscience       _Samuel Butler_               29
    Description of Holland            _Samuel Butler_               30
    The Religion of Hudibras          _Samuel Butler_               31
    Satire on the Scots               _John Cleiveland_             32
    Song                              _Richard Lovelace_            34
    The Character of Holland          _Andrew Marvell_              35
    The Duke of Buckingham            _John Dryden_                 37
    On Shadwell                       _John Dryden_                 38
    Satire on Edward Howard           _Charles Sackville, Earl
                                           of Dorset_               39
    St. Anthony’s Sermon to the
          Fishes                      _Abraham á Sancta Clara_      39
    Introduction to the True-Born
          Englishman                  _Daniel Defoe_                41
    An Epitaph                        _Matthew Prior_               43
    The Remedy Worse than the Disease _Matthew Prior_               45
    Twelve Articles                   _Jonathan Swift_              46
    The Furniture of a Woman’s Mind   _Jonathan Swift_              48
    From “The Love of Fame”           _Edward Young_                50
    Dr. Delany’s Villa                _Thomas Sheridan_             52
    The Quidnunckis                   _John Gay_                    54
    The Sick Man and the Angel        _John Gay_                    55
    Sandys’ Ghost                     _Alexander Pope_              57
    From “The Epistle to Dr.
          Arbuthnot”                  _Alexander Pope_              60
    The Three Black Crows             _John Byrom_                  63
    An Epitaph                        _George John Cayley_          64
    An Epistle to Sir