“Ho! Master Sam,” quoth Sandys’ sprite,

“Write on, nor let me scare ye;

Forsooth, if rhymes fall in not right,

To Budgell seek, or Carey.

“I hear the beat of Jacob’s drums;

Poor Ovid finds no quarter.

See first the merry P—— comes

In haste, without his garter.

“Then lords and lordlings, squires and knights,

Wits, witlings, prigs, and peers;