[ [52] "Decies repetita placebit."—Horace, Ars Poetica, 365.

[ [53]

"For instance: when you rashly think,

No rhymer can like Welsted sink,

His merits balanc'd, you shall find,

The laureat leaves him far behind."

Swift, On Poetry: a Rhapsody, l. 393.

[ [54] "Frankly. Then for your Reputation, if you won't bustle about it, and now and then give it these little Helps of Art, how can you hope to raise it?

Author [Cibber]. If it can't live upon simple Nature, let it die, and be damn'd! I shall give myself no further Trouble about it."—"The Egotist: or, Colley upon Cibber," p. 9.

[ [55] Young's second "Epistle to Mr. Pope."