This work's addressee has an empire that stretches to Barbadoes on the Western Main; he "seems design'd for thoughtless majesty," and his coronation is attended by Herringman, the "Captain of the Guard.
This work's addressee has an empire that stretches to Barbadoes on the Western Main; he "seems design'd for thoughtless majesty," and his coronation is attended by Herringman, the "Captain of the Guard." This poem instructs its addressee to seek "some peaceful province in acrostic land" where he can "torture one poor word ten thousand ways," and earlier bashes its addressee for his use of anagram instead of iamb. The speaker jabs "let no alien Sedley interpose/ To lard with wit thy hungry Epsom prose," an accusation that Charles Sedley helped write Epsom Wells.  The addressee of this poem is "mature in dullness" and therefore Empress Fame calls him be crowned with a wreath of poppies. Opening "All human things are subject to decay," for 10 points, name this "Satire upon a true-blue Protestant" which lampoons Thomas Shadwell, a satiric poem by John Dryden.
This work's addressee has an empire that stretches to Barbadoes on the Western Main; he "seems design'd for thoughtless majesty," and his coronation is attended by Herringman, the "Captain of the Guard.
“{Mac Flecknoe}”