Boileau
, who formed himself upon the Ancient Poets, has every where rejected it with Scorn. If we look after mixt Wit among the
Greek
Writers, we shall find it no where but in the Epigrammatists. There are indeed some Strokes of it in the little Poem ascribed to Musœus, which by that, as well as many other Marks, betrays it self to be a modern Composition. If we look into the
Latin
Writers, we find none of this mixt Wit in
Virgil, Lucretius
, or
Catullus
; very little in