Versos English David Garrick Extempore, on hearing a certain impertinent Address in the Newspapers

English poem

Extempore, on hearing a certain impertinent Address in the Newspapers

by (1717–1779)

Listen in the reader

Thou essence of dock, of valerian and sage, At once the disgrace and the pest of this age, The worst that we wish thee for all thy damn'd crimes, Is to take thy own physic and read thy own rhimes.