A Treatise upon the Small-Pox — Preface
The Age was dull, and Comedy was coarse,Cob's Tankard was a Jest, and Otter's Horse:Our Men and Ladies now speak better WitIn Conversation, than those Poets writ.
Richard Blackmore (1654–1729)
The Age was dull, and Comedy was coarse,Cob's Tankard was a Jest, and Otter's Horse:Our Men and Ladies now speak better WitIn Conversation, than those Poets writ.