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(19) [Page 1] - Pick-tooth for the pope; or The pack-mans pater noster
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SELECTIONS FROM RENFREWSHIRE POETS.
A PICK-TOOTH FOR THE POPE : OR THE PACK-
MANS PATER NOSTER.
Set down in a DialoffHe, betwixt a Packman and a Priest.
TRANSLATED OUT OF DUTCH BY S. I. S. AND NEWLY AUGMENTED AND
ENLARGED BY HIS SON, B. S.
This pious Poeme buy and read
For off the Pope it knocks the head.
TO THE READER.
This Present (for the present) I present,
To you, good Reader, with my small addition.
The which, to imitate is my intent :
To match, or over-match, were great ambition :
I but enlarge it, not surpasse ; for neither
I may, can, will, dare parallel my Father.
I may not ; for I cannot reach unto it ;
A nd though I could, I ivill not enterprise it ;
A nd though I tvould, could, might, I dare not do it ;
To dare, ivere with disdain for to despise it.
My Parents Poeme only to expresse,
I jjresse, of neiv, to put into the Presse,
A PICK-TOOTH FOR THE POPE : OR THE PACK-
MANS PATER NOSTER.
Set down in a DialoffHe, betwixt a Packman and a Priest.
TRANSLATED OUT OF DUTCH BY S. I. S. AND NEWLY AUGMENTED AND
ENLARGED BY HIS SON, B. S.
This pious Poeme buy and read
For off the Pope it knocks the head.
TO THE READER.
This Present (for the present) I present,
To you, good Reader, with my small addition.
The which, to imitate is my intent :
To match, or over-match, were great ambition :
I but enlarge it, not surpasse ; for neither
I may, can, will, dare parallel my Father.
I may not ; for I cannot reach unto it ;
A nd though I could, I ivill not enterprise it ;
A nd though I tvould, could, might, I dare not do it ;
To dare, ivere with disdain for to despise it.
My Parents Poeme only to expresse,
I jjresse, of neiv, to put into the Presse,
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Description | Scottish songs and music of the 18th and early 19th centuries, including music for the Highland bagpipe. These are selected items from the collection of John Glen (1833 to 1904). Also includes a few manuscripts, some treatises, and other books on the subject. |
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Description | The Glen Collection and the Inglis Collection represent mainly 18th and 19th century Scottish music, including Scottish songs. The collections of Berlioz and Verdi collected by bibliographer Cecil Hopkinson contain contemporary and later editions of the works of the two composers Berlioz and Verdi. |
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