The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 1 by Jonathan Swift

Author:Jonathan Swift [Swift, Jonathan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2004-12-14T05:00:00+00:00

[Footnote 1: Limbo, any place of misery and restraint.

"For he no sooner was at large,

But Trulla straight brought on the charge,

And in the selfsame Limbo put

The knight and squire where he was shut."

Hudibras, Part i, canto iii, 1,000.

Here abbreviated by Swift as a cant term for a pawn shop.—W. E. B.]

THE PUPPET-SHOW

The life of man to represent,

And turn it all to ridicule,

Wit did a puppet-show invent,

Where the chief actor is a fool.

The gods of old were logs of wood,

And worship was to puppets paid;

In antic dress the idol stood,

And priest and people bow'd the head.

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