To serve as future treasure for the nation.
There, terrier-like, till pages find him out,
He pokes his most sagacious nose about;
And scenes in Paradise—like that so fam’d;
Looking like Adam too, and Eve so fair;
Sweet simpletons! who, though so bare,
Were (says the Bible) not asham’d.
No man binds books so well as George the Third.
By thirst of leather glory spurr’d,
At bookbinders he oft is seen to laugh—