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Nash retired, for the moment, from the controversy, and in the prefatory epistle to a remarkable work, the most bulky of all his books, "Christ's Tears over Jerusalem," he waved the white flag. He bade, he declared, "a hundred unfortunate farewells to fantastical satirism," and complimented his late antagonist on his "abundant scholarship."
Here is question of "administering strong pills" to Jonson; THEN, "What lumps of hard and indigested stuff, Of bitter SATIRISM, of ARROGANCE, Of SELF-LOVE, of DETRACTION, of a black And stinking INSOLENCE should we fetch up!" This "pill" is a reply to Ben's "purge" for the poets in his Poetaster. Oh, the sad old stuff!
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