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The life of man to represent	A
And turn it all to ridicule	B
Wit did a puppet show invent	A
Where the chief actor is a fool	B
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The gods of old were logs of wood	C
And worship was to puppets paid	D
In antic dress the idol stood	C
And priest and people bow'd the head	E
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No wonder then if art began	F
The simple votaries to frame	G
To shape in timber foolish man	F
And consecrate the block to fame	G
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From hence poetic fancy learn'd	H
That trees might rise from human forms	I
The body to a trunk be turn'd	H
And branches issue from the arms	J
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Thus D dalus and Ovid too	K
That man's a blockhead have confest	K
Powel and Stretch the hint pursue	K
Life is a farce the world a jest	K
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The same great truth South Sea has proved	K
On that famed theatre the alley	L
Where thousands by directors moved	K
Are now sad monuments of folly	L
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What Momus was of old to Jove	M
The same a Harlequin is now	N
The former was buffoon above	M
The latter is a Punch below	O
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This fleeting scene is but a stage	P
Where various images appear	Q
In different parts of youth and age	P
Alike the prince and peasant share	R
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Some draw our eyes by being great	K
False pomp conceals mere wood within	S
And legislators ranged in state	K
Are oft but wisdom in machine	T
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A stock may chance to wear a crown	U
And timber as a lord take place	V
A statue may put on a frown	U
And cheat us with a thinking face	V
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Others are blindly led away	W
And made to act for ends unknown	X
By the mere spring of wires they play	W
And speak in language not their own	X
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Too oft alas a scolding wife	M
Usurps a jolly fellow's throne	X
And many drink the cup of life	M
Mix'd and embitter'd by a Joan	X
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In short whatever men pursue	K
Of pleasure folly war or love	M
This mimic race brings all to view	K
Alike they dress they talk they move	M
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Go on great Stretch with artful hand	K
Mortals to please and to deride	K
And when death breaks thy vital band	K
Thou shalt put on a puppet's pride	K
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Thou shalt in puny wood be shown	X
Thy image shall preserve thy fame	G
Ages to come thy worth shall own	X
Point at thy limbs and tell thy name	G
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Tell Tom he draws a farce in vain	Y
Before he looks in nature's glass	Z
Puns cannot form a witty scene	T
Nor pedantry for humour pass	Z
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To make men act as senseless wood	K
And chatter in a mystic strain	Y
Is a mere force on flesh and blood	K
And shows some error in the brain	Y
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He that would thus refine on thee	L
And turn thy stage into a school	B
The jest of Punch will ever be	L
And stand confest the greater fool	B

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