Of Curll's chaste press, and Lintot's rubric post:[186]

Hence hymning Tyburn's elegiac lines,[187]

Hence journals, medleys, mercuries, magazines;

Sepulchral lies, our holy walls to grace,

And new-year odes,[188] and all the Grub Street race.

In clouded majesty here Dulness shone;

Four guardian virtues, round, support her throne:

Fierce champion fortitude, that knows no fears

Of hisses, blows, or want, or loss of ears:

Calm temperance, whose blessings those partake