Words with just note and accent, [not to scan]
[With Midas’ ears], [committing short and long],
Thy [worth and skill exempts thee] from the throng, 5
With praise enough for Envy to look wan;
To after age thou shalt be writ the man
That with smooth air [couldst humor best our tongue].
Thou honor’st Verse, and Verse must send her wing
To honor thee, the priest of P[hœbus’ quire], 10
That tunest their happiest lines in hymn or story.