“Thus I chastise thy sland’rous tongue,

On calumny and lies intent:

Doubtless the Asar’s choir among

Thou art the most impertinent!

“Wretched buffoon! base weather-cock!

Vile mimic of the giant race!

How darest thou Asa Thor provoke,

And falsehoods thus insidious trace?

Thyself an Asa, thou do’st e’er

Delight thy peers to vilify: