text,updated_at,metaphor,created_at,context,theme,reviewed_on,dictionary,comments,provenance,id,work_id "TELL me, tell me what is WIT,
Ye who dealers are in it?
Variety it still assumes,
As different sweets are yet perfumes.
Like Proteus, various shapes it bears,
Graceful in various robes appears;
One while in simple garb its seen,
Another,--tricked out like a queen.
In London much false Wit is sold,
As Sheffield coin is pass'd for gold!

And oft in WIT you're cheated there,
As you're deceiv'd in Wedgewood Ware.
Thus priests preach up their creeds for reason,
And Liberty denounce as treason.
So spurious WITS for true ones shine,
As Tories think a King divine.
(p. 26)",2012-01-18 16:18:52 UTC,"""In London much false Wit is sold, / As Sheffield coin is pass'd for gold!""",2011-05-20 15:24:29 UTC,"","",2012-01-18,Coinage,"",Browsing in Google Books,18445,6858