LVIII.
Reading edition
ON SEEING THE BEAUTIFUL SEAT OF
LORD GALLOWAY.
[This, and the three succeeding Epigrams, are hasty squibs thrown amid the tumult of a contested election, and must not be taken as the fixed and deliberate sentiments of the poet, regarding an ancient and noble house.]
What dost thou in that mansion fair?— Flit, Galloway, and find Some narrow, dirty, dungeon cave, The picture of thy mind!