Deliberating Judgment slowly comes behind [Fancy]; / Comes to the field with blunderbuss and gun, / Like heavy <i>Falstaff</i>, when the work is done"
Prologue to the Grateful Fair
3 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1763, 1791).<br>
<br>
Text from <u>The Poems of the Late Christopher Smart ... Consisting of His Prize Poems, Odes, Sonnets, and Fables, Latin and English Translations: Together With Many Original Compositions, Not Included in the Quarto Edition. To Which Is Prefixed, an Account of His Life and Writings, Never Before Published.</u> 2 vols. (London: Printed and Sold by Smart and Cowslade; and sold by F. Power and Co., 1791).<br>
<br>
Published as "Prologue to the Grateful Fair" in <u>The Poetical Calendar. Containing a Collection of Scarce and Valuable Pieces of Poetry: With Variety of Originals and Translations, by the Most Eminent Hands. Intended As a Supplement to Mr. Dodsley's Collection. Written and Selected by Francis Fawkes, M. A. and William Woty</u>. 12 vols. 2nd ed. (London: Printed by Dryden Leach; for J. Coote, 1763). See vol. IV, pp. 121-2.<br>
<br>
Reading in Katrina Williamson and Marcus Walsh, eds., <u>Christopher Smart: Selected Poems</u> (New York: Penguin Books, 1990).