And still broods o’er the closely-kept Lampoon;

The lurking Presents o’er the Tomb he paid,

And thus atton’d our British Virgil’s Shade,

A Mushroom * Satire in his Life conceal’d,

Since chang’d to Libel, and in Print reveal’d;

Who lets not † Beauty base Detraction ’scape,

And mocks Deformity with Æsop’s Shape;

Who Cato’s Muse with faithless Sneers belied,

The Prologue father’d, and the Play decried,

On ‡ H——y’s learned Page, dull-sporting trod,