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Two Miltons in separate ages were born:
The cleverer Milton 'tis clear we have got,
Though the other had talents the world to adorn,
This lives by his mews, which the other could not!

— Theodore Hook

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Cp. Gray, Elegy in a Country Churchyard (1751): Some mute inglorious Milton.

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This pair in matrimony
Go most unequal snacks:
He gets all the Honey,
And she gets all the whacks.

Cease, ye Etonians! and no more
With rival wits contend:
Feathers, we know, will float in air,
And bubbles will ascend.

Cease your humming;
The case is "on";
Defendant's Cumming,
Plaintiff's—gone!

Shelley styles his new poem "Prometheus Unbound,"
And 'tis like to remain so while time circles round;
For surely an age would be spent in the finding
A reader so weak as to pay for the binding!

It seems as if Nature had curiously plann'd
That men's names with their trades should agree;
There's Twining the Tea-man, who lives in the Strand,
Would be whining, if robb'd of his T.

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