And give to Virgil words he never knew;
Yet ere the partial voice of Critic scorn
Condemn their memory or their toils deride,
Say, have not we had equal cause to mourn
A waste of words, and learning ill-applied?
Can none remember?—yes, I know all can—
When readings against different readings jarred,
While Bentley led the stem scholastic van,
And new editions with the old ones warred.
Nor ye, who lightly o'er each work proceed,