Epigram on the Marquis of Granby. 



" Caesar was prematurely bare, 

 Just as is honour'd Rutlatid's heir 

 (Nor will the likeness finish there), 

 But Julius at his baldness griev'd, 

 If history may be believ'd, 

 And to conceal his want of hair 

 Contriv'd the laurel wreath to wear ; 

 While Granby (greater here than Caesar), 

 Whether in town or on the Weser, 

 Without disguise his forehead shows. 

 Without concern, to friends and foes. 

 Hold, cries Ironicus, I doubt 

 You cannot fairly make it out ; 

 For Granby too his bareness pains, 

 And therefore in WestphalicCs plains 

 He vindicates the British quarrel, 

 And wreathes about his brows the laurel" ^ 



* The Gentlemaris Magazine, October, 1760. 



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