An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, Volume 1 (of 2) / Written by Himself. A New Edition with Notes and Supplement

by Colley Cibber

Dr. Johnson also wrote an epigram, of which he seems to have been somewhat proud:—

"Augustus still survives in Maro's strain,

And Spenser's verse prolongs Eliza's reign;

Great George's acts let tuneful Cibber sing;

For Nature form'd the Poet for the King."

Boswell, i. 149.

In "Certain Epigrams, in Laud and Praise of the Gentlemen of the Dunciad," p. 8, is:—

Epigram XVI.
A Question by Anonymus.

"Tell, if you can, which did the worse,

Caligula, or Gr—n's [Grafton's] Gr—ce?