Samuel Bishop (1731–1795) was a poet born in London, and educated at Merchant Taylors' School and Oxford University. He later became Headmaster of Merchant Taylor's School. His poems on miscellaneous subjects fill two quarto volumes and the best of them are those to his wife and daughter. He also published essays.
THE MAN IN THE MOON.
WHAT brainsick noddle spun the tether,
That coupled Man and Moon together,
At prefent I shall not discuss
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