Excerpt from Some Account of the Life and Adventures of Sir Regd; Mohun, Bt: Done in Verse As long as men have ears - short ears or long They will be tickled with a rhyming jingle The barbarous soul is satisfied with song Whose melodies with little meaning mingle Then, as the Age arises from its slumber, (as a last dream in waking minds will tingle) Comes forth the first great Poet. Then a number Of followers leave much literary lumber. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.