"Of beasts, it is confessed, the ape / Comes nearest us in human shape; / Like man he imitates each fashion, / And malice is his ruling passion; / But both in malice and grimaces / A courtier any ape surpasses"
The Logicians Refuted
At least 22 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1759, 1762, 1778, 1780, 1786, 1787, 1788, 1791, 1792, 1792, 1793, 1794, 1795, 1796, 1799, 1800). [Also attributed to, and collected with the works of, Jonathan Swift. Lonsdale places it with other "poems of doubtful authenticity."]<br>
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First printed in <u>The Busy Bee</u> No. 5, (October, 1759).<br>
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Reading Roger Lonsdale's <u>The Poems of Gray, Collins, and Goldsmith</u> (New York: Longman and Norton, 1969).