Thou weild'st thy papers in thy threshing hand;

St André's[424] feet ne'er kept more equal time,

Not even the feet of thy own Psyche's rhyme,

Though they in number as in sense excel;[425]

So just, so like tautology, they fell,

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That, pale with envy, Singleton[426] forswore }

The lute and sword, which he in triumph bore, }

And vowed he ne'er would act Villerius more.— }

Here stopt the good old sire, and wept for joy,