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First Line: Grub street is milton street today
Last Line: And call our task-work 'letters.'
Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin
Subject(s): Goldsmith, Oliver (1730-1774)


GRUB-STREET is Milton Street to-day;
And that antiqua Mater
Whom GOLDSMITH served has passed away;
But is our lot the greater?

Ah no! as some lean rascal hides
His misery from his betters,
We wrap our trash in parchment sides,
And call our task-work 'Letters.'





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