What never will be uttered else than so—

Since to the four walls, Forum and Mars' Hill,

Speaks out the poesy which, penned, turns prose.

Clavecinist debarred his instrument,

He yet thrums—shirking neither turn nor trill,

With desperate finger on dumb table-edge—

The sovereign rondo, shall conclude his Suite,

Charm an imaginary audience there,

From old Corelli to young Haendel, both

I' the flesh at Rome, ere he perforce go print