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Oliver Goldsmith (1728-74): "Retaliation: A Poem" (1774)

The author wrote this in an exchange of epitaphs with David Garrick the British actor. — Alice, the Anchovy Schoolmarm

. . . Our Garrick's a salad, for in him we see
Oil, vinegar, sugar, and saltness agree:
To make out the dinner, full certain I am,
That Ridge is an anchovy, and Reynolds is lamb;
That Hickey's a capon, and by the same rule,
Magnanimous Goldsmith, a gooseberry fool. . . .

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