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Subject: SCROOPE, SIR CARR (D. 1680)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AN ALLUSION TO HORACE, THE TENTH SATYR OF THE FIRST BOOK, by JOHN WILMOT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Well, sir, 'tis granted I said dryden's rhymes
Last Line: Approve my sense: I count their censure fame.
Alternate Author Name(s): Rochester, 2d Earl Of
Subject(s): Busby, Richard (1606-1695); Dryden, John (1631-1700); Etherege, Sir George (1635-1692); Godolphin, Sidney (1610-1643); Horace (65-8 B.c.); Otway, Thomas (1652-1685); Scroope, Sir Carr (d. 1680); Sedley, Sir Charles (1639-1701); Settle, Elkanah (1648-1724


MOCK SONG, by JOHN WILLSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: I swerve as well as others do
Last Line: To wish those eyes, to wish those eyes fucked out
Subject(s): Scroope, Sir Carr (d. 1680)


ON POET NINNY, by JOHN WILMOT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Crushed by that just contempt his follies bring
Last Line: Than what thy very friends have said before.
Alternate Author Name(s): Rochester, 2d Earl Of
Subject(s): Scroope, Sir Carr (d. 1680)


ON THE SUPPOSED AUTHOR OF A LATE POEM IN DEFENCE OF SATYR, by JOHN WILMOT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To rack and torture thy unmeaning brain
Last Line: For anything entirely but an ass.
Alternate Author Name(s): Rochester, 2d Earl Of
Subject(s): Scroope, Sir Carr (d. 1680)