Martial. <br /> <br />O Fortune! if my prayer of old <br />Was ne'er solicitous for gold, <br />With better grace thou may'st allow <br />My suppliant wish, that asks it now: <br />Yet think not, Goddess! I require it <br />For the same end your clowns desire it. <br />In a well made effectual string <br />Fain would I see Lovidio swing; <br />Hear him, from Tyburn's height haranguing; <br />But such a cur's not worth one's hanging. <br />Give me, O Goddess! store of pelf, <br />And he will tie the knot himself.<br /><br />William Shenstone<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-invidious/
