“Apollo, concern’d to see the Transgressions
Our paltry Poets do daily commit,
Gave orders once more to summon a Sessions,
Severely to punish th’ Abuses of Wit.
Will d’Avenant would fain have been Steward o’ the Court,
To have fin’d and amerc’d each man at his will;
But Apollo, it seems, had heard a Report,
That his choice of new Plays did show h’ had no skill.
Besides, some Criticks had ow’d him a spite,
And a little before had made the God fret,