Thou common shore of this poetic town,

Where all the excrements of wit are thrown;

For sonnet, satire, bawdry, blasphemy,

Are emptied, and disburdened all in thee:

The choleric wight, untrussing all in rage,

Finds thee, and lays his load upon thy page.

Thou Julian, or thou wise Vespasian rather,

Dost from this dung thy well-pickt guineas gather.

All mischief's thine; transcribing, thou wilt stoop