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William Blake (1757–1827). The Poetical Works. 1908.

On Art and Artists

On the great encouragement given by English nobility and gentry to Correggio, Rubens, Reynolds, Gainsborough, Catalani, Du Crow, and Dilbury Doodle

AS the ignorant savage will sell his own wife

For a sword, or a cutlass, a dagger, or knife;

So the taught, savage Englishman, spends his whole fortune

On a smear, or a squall, to destroy picture or tune;

And I call upon Colonel Wardle

To give these rascals a dose of caudle!