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An Old Man Muses Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis	Counting a mountebank amongst my peers I, who commanded with the voice of...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Book Eighth: Retrospect--Love Of Nature Leading To Love Of Man William Wordsworth	Prouder itinerant, mountebank, or he Whose wonders in a covered wain lie...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Farewell And Defiance To Love John Clare	That kills what it pretends to cure, Life's mountebank thou...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
La Muse Vénale (The Venal Muse) Charles Baudelaire	Or, hungry mountebank, to put up for sale your charm, Your laughter wet with tears which people do not see, To...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Prologue To Sophonisba; Spoken at Oxford, 1680 John Dryden	Was the first mountebank that trod the stage: Yet Athens never knew your learned sport, Of tossing poets in...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Song Victoria Sackville-West	But since to clasp your soul I strove, (That mountebank, that fugitive) Anrl poured the river of my love Through meshes that, like Danae's sieve,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Grand Consulation George Canning	is that Prince of all Mountebank fame, With his baths of hot earth, and his beds of hot...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Metaphysical Sectarian Samuel Butler	The Itch, of purpose to be scratch'd; Or, like a Mountebank, did wound And stab her self with doubts profound, Onely to shew with how small pain The...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Shepherd's Week : Saturday; or, The Flights John Gay	The mountebank now treads the stage, and sells His pills, his balsams, and his ague-spells; Now o'er and o'er...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Vain King Henry Van Dyke	No favourite mountebank, whose acting draws From gaping crowds loud thunder of applause, Was vainer than the King:...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)

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