To Carthy, Attributing Some Performances To Mr. Dunkin (Epigram Against Carthy)
From the Gentleman's London Magazine for January. My lines to him you give; to speak your due, 'Tis what no man alive will say of you. Your works are like old Jacob's speckled goats, Known by the verse, yet better by the notes. Pope's essays upon some for Young's may pass, But all distinguish thy dull leaden mass; So green in different lights may pass for blue, But what's dyed black will take no other hue.
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