"I think / I'ad e'en as good take up with Ink: / On second Thoughts too, 'cause 'tis black, / It seems the very thing I lack, / For I am apt to think his Soul / Is somewhat darker than a Coal."
On Crito, who wrote against Me. [from The Poetical Works of Mr. William Pattison]
Only 1 entry in ESTC (1727).<br>
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<u>The Poetical Works of Mr. William Pattison, Late of Sidney College Cambridge.</u> (London: Printed in the year MDCCXXVIII [i.e. 1727] For H. Curll in the Strand). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T115475">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;