Observing these, your epigram’s completed;
Nor fear ’twill tire, though seven times repeated.
On Ben Jonson’s Bust set up in Westminster Abbey, with the buttons on the wrong side of his coat.
BY THE REV. SAMUEL WESLEY.
O rare Ben Jonson! What, a turn-coat grown!
Thou ne’er wert such till thou wert clad in stone.
When time thy coat, thy only coat, impairs,
Thou’lt find a patron in a hundred years:
Then let not this mistake disturb thy sprite,
Another age shall set thy buttons right.