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Dick ended:—Tom and Will approve’d his strains;

And thought his Legend made as good a figure

As naturalizing a dull German’s brains,

Which beget issues in the Heliconian stews,

Upon a profligate Tenth Muse,

In all the gloomy impotence of vigour.[1]

“’Twas now the very witching time of night,

When Prosers yawn.”—Discussion grew diffuse: