To start your author—that’s enough:
In vain the critics sit to watch him,
Try at the starting-post to catch him;
He’s off—the puffers carry it hollow—
The critics, if they please, may follow;
Ere they’ve laid down their first positions,
He’s fairly blown through six editions!
In vain doth Edinburgh dispense
Her blue and yellow pestilence
(That plague so awful in my time