Fiddle, we know, is diddle: and diddle we take it is dee.
The clever little work, from which the above is an extract, was published anonymously, but has been ascribed by the Athenæum, and other authorities, to a no less distinguished poet than Mr. A. C. Swinburne. Its full title is—
SPECIMENS OF MODERN POETS.
THE HEPTALOGIA; OR, THE SEVEN AGAINST SENSE. A CAP WITH SEVEN BELLS.
I. The Higher Pantheism in a Nutshell.
II. John Jones.
III. The Poet and the Woodlouse.
IV. The Person of the House (Idyl CCCLXVI.)
V. Last Words of a Seventh-rate Poet.