}

{ He was too warm on picking-work to dwell,

{ But fagotted his notions as they fell,

{ And, if they rhimed and rattled, all was well.

Spiteful he is not, though he wrote a satire,

For still there goes some thinking to ill-nature;

He needs no more than birds and beasts to think,

All his occasions are to eat and drink.

If he call rogue and rascal from a garret,

He means you no more mischief than a parrot;