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What a pity, then, that he did not give us more of the evening, which seems to have left joyful memories to both: for Surtees himself thus commemorated it in macaronics, in which he was an adept: "Doctus Tatius hic residet, Ad Coronam prandet ridet, Spargit sales cum cachinno, Lepido ore et concinno, Ubique carus inter bonos Rubei montis præsens honos."
Wit should be chaste; and those that have it, can only write well: Si modo Scimus in urbanum Lepido se ponere dicto. Another way of the Ancients, which the French follow, and our Stage has, now lately, practised; is to write in Rhyme. A Poem, being a premeditated Form of thoughts, upon designed occasions: ought not to be unfurnished of any Harmony in Words or Sound.
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