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88 Curl stretches after Gay, but Gay is gone, He grasps an empty Joseph for a John: So Proteus, hunted in a nobler shape, Became, when seiz'd, a puppy, or an ape. To him the Goddess: Son! thy grief lay down, And turn this whole illusion on the town: As the sage dame, experienc'd in her trade, By names of Toasts retails each batter'd jade; (Whence hapless Monsieur much complains at Paris Of wrongs from Duchesses and Lady Maries;) Be thine, my stationer! this magic gift; Cook shall be Prior, and Concanen, Swift: So shall each hostile name become our own, And we too boast our Garth and Addison.