Horrid to view! retire from human Sight,

Nor with thy Figure pregnant Dames affright.

Crawl thro’ thy childish Grot, growl round thy Grove,

A Foe to Man, an Antidote to Love.

In Curses waste thy Time instead of Pray’r,

[a] And with thy Breath pollute the fragrant Air.

There doze o’er Shakespear; then thy Blunders fell

[b] At mighty Price; this Truth let Tonson tell.

Then frontless intimate, (oh perjur’d Bard!)

Thy Labours were bestow’d without Reward.