The Preface
A Treatise upon the Small-Pox
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)
A Treatise upon the Small-Pox
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.