An EPIGRAM. On the Reverend Mr. LAURENCE ECHARD's, and Bishop GILBERT BURNET's Histories. Matthew Green Alexander Huber Editor Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
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Oxford This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. T131163 K104099.001 Dodsley, Robert, 1703-1764. A Collection of Poems in Six Volumes. By Several Hands. Vol. I. London printed by J. Hughs, for R. and J. Dodsley 1763 [1st ed. 1758] pp. 146-147. 6v.: music; 8⁰.

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An EPIGRAM . On the Reverend Mr. LAURENCE ECHARD's , and Bishop GILBERT BURNET's Histories . By the Same . GIL'S history appears to me Political anatomy , A case of skeletons well done , And malefactors every one . His sharp and strong incision pen Historically cuts up men , And does with lucid skill impart Their inward ails of head and heart . LAURENCE proceeds another way , And well-dress'd figures doth display : His characters are all in flesh , Their hands are fair , their faces fresh ; And from his sweet'ning art derive A better scent than when alive . He wax-work made to please the sons , Whose fathers were GIL'S skeletons .