Review them, and tell noses;
For to poor Ovid shall befall
A strange metamorphosis.
"A metamorphosis more strange
Than all his books can vapour;"
"To what" (quoth squire) "shall Ovid change?"
Quoth Sandys: "To waste paper".
[197] The Earl of Pembroke, probably.—Roscoe.
[XXXVII.] SATIRE ON THE WHIG POETS.
This is practically the whole of Pope's famous Epistle to Arbuthnot, otherwise the Prologue to the Satires. The only portion I have omitted, in order to include in this collection one of the greatest of his satires, is the introductory lines, which are frequently dropped, as the poem really begins with the line wherewith it is represented as opening here.