Dwindling the prince below the pigmy size.
Witness the once Great Louis in youthful pride,
And Charles of happy days, who both confess’d
The magic power of mezzotinto[101] shade,
And form grotesque, in manifestoes loud
Denouncing death to boor and burgomaster.
Witness, ye sacred popes with triple crown,
Who likewise victims fell to hideous print,
Spurn’d by the populace who whilome lay
Prostrate, and ev’n adored before your thrones.