Of such a wretched rabble, who would write?

Much less half-wits; that's more against our rules;

For they are fops, the other are but fools.

Who would not be as silly as Dunbar?[34]

As dull as Monmouth,[35] rather than Sir Carr?[36]

The cunning courtier should be slighted too,

Who with dull knavery makes so much ado;

Till the shrewd fool, by thriving too too fast,

Like Æsop's fox, becomes a prey at last.

Nor shall the royal mistresses[37] be named,