Samuel Bishop
Samuel Bishop
Samuel Bishop was an English poet, clergyman and teacher, born in London and educated at Merchant Taylors' School and St John's College, Oxford. Having taken holy orders, he entered his old school as a master in 1758, rising to become headmaster in 1783. After his death, his occasional poems were collected and published in 1796, with a memoir by Rev. Thomas Clare, and his sermons in 1798.
"In myriad swarms, each summer sun An insect nation shows; Whose being, since he rose, begun; And e’er he sets will close.Brief is their date, confin’d their pow’rs, The fluttering of a day;— Yet life’s worth living, ev’n for hours, When all those hours—are play."
"A Fool and Knave, with different views, For Julia’s hand apply: The Knave, to mend his fortune sues: The Fool, to please his eye.Ask you, how JULIA will behave? Depend on’t for a rule, If she’s a Fool, she’ll wed the Knave— If she’s a Knave, the Fool."
