Betray’d his Patrons, and lampoon’d his God;
Translator, Editor, could far out-go
In Homer Ogleby, in Shakespeare R——
O! how burlesqu’d, great Dryden, is thy Strain,
When little Alexander ‖ slays the Slain!
‖ See Dryden’s Ode on St. Cæcilia’s Day.
———Fought all his Battles o’er again;
———And thrice he slew the Slain.
On, mighty Rhimer, haste new Palms to seize,
Thy little, envious, angry Genius teize;