Completely damn’d, the simple fact is,
By Perkins’s Metallic Practice![49]
Our should-be wise and learn’d societies
Are guilty of great improprieties,
In treating me in manner scandalous,
As if I were a very Vandal; thus
Determined, as I have no doubt,
My sun of genius to put out,
Which, once extinct, they think that so ’tis
Their glow-worm lights may claim some notice.