The third poem, p. 8, again to the Poet, mocks him as well as his assailants’ lines (our M. D. C., p. 108) with twenty triplets:—
After so many poorer scraps
Of Playes which nere had the mishaps
To passe the stage without their claps, &c.
Next comes a poem “Upon the continuation of Gondibert,” “Ovid to Patmos pris’ner sent.” (Later, we extract the chief lines for the “Sessions” Add. Note.) He is told,
Wash thee in Avon, if thou flie,
My wary Davenant so high,
Yet Hypernaso now you shall
Ore fly this Goose so Capitall. (p. 14.)
After five others, came one Upon the Author, beginning,