douglas

Here douglas* retires, from his toils to relax,
The scourge of impostors, the terror of quacks:
Come, all ye quack bards, and ye quacking divines,
Come, and dance on the spot where your tyrant reclines:
When Satire and Censure encircled his throne,
I feared for your safety, I feared for my own;
But now he is gone, and we want a detector,
Our Dodds shall be pious, our Kenricks shall lecture;
Macpherson write bombast, and call it a style,
Our Townshend make speeches, and I shall compile;
New Lauders and Bowers the Tweed shall cross over,
No countryman living their tricks to discover;
Detection her taper shall quench to a spark,
And Scotchman meet Scotchman, and cheat in the dark.

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*douglas
John douglas. later Bishop of Salisbury. Born in Scotland he was addicted to writing political pamphlets (considered to be very non rigeur for a clergyman) including the 'Complete and Final Detection of Bower' which proved that Archibald Bower, another Scot who had written a History of the Popes and had risen to the exalted rank of Librarian To The Queen after a career with the inquisition in Italy was an imposter who had madeup the whole tale of his past life.

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