He 'll think as the pickle he curses,

I 've discharged on his pate his own verses!

"Dwarfs are saucy," says Dickens: so, sauced in

Your own sauce,[5] ...

XXVIII

But, back to my Knight of the Pencil,

Dismissed to his fresco and stencil!

Whose story—begun with a chuckle,

And throughout timed by raps of the knuckle,—

To small enough purpose were studied