His name was Bolus.

Benjamin Bolus, tho’ in trade,

(Which oftentimes will Genius fetter)

Read works of fancy, it is said;

And cultivated the Belles Lettres.

And why should this be thought so odd?

Can’t men have taste who cure a phthysic;

Of Poetry tho’ Patron-God,

Apollo patronises physick.

Bolus love’d verse;—and took so much delight in’t,