Citation - Boston Evening Post (Fleet): 1738.12.11

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Index Entry Let's bore a hole in Robin's snout [fl] 
Location London 
Citation
BEP(F.738.046
11 Dec 1738:12 (174)
Reading the unparallel'd lines on Britain's Pilot, in the
last Saturday's Gazetteer, it put me in mind of a couple of
stanzas, which, as I have heard, were made by that great wit
the Earl of Rochester, as a burlesque on the translation of
the psalms into English metre, by Hopkins and Sternhold.  I
have sent them to you, in hopes you will insert them in your
next paper, which will oblige .. P.B.
  Let's bore a hole in Robin's snout,
  And put therein a string,
  And lead him all about the town,
  That folk may laugh at him;
  And when we've led him all about,
  And vexed him full sore,
  We'll pull the string out of his snout,
  And vex him so no more.


Generic Title Boston Evening Post (Fleet) 
Date 1738.12.11 
Publisher Fleet, T. 
City, State Boston, MA 
Year 1738 
Bibliography B0001965
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