To future time, when high and low alike

Are dead and done with, while my airy power

Flies disengaged, as vapor from what stuff

It—say not, dwelt in—fitlier, dallied with

To forward work, which done,—deliverance brave,—

It soars away, and mud subsides to dust.

Say then, myself invented Comedy!'

"So mouths full many a famed Parabasis!

Agreed! No more, then, of prescriptive use,

Authorization by antiquity,