Of tumbling torrents; or as in some mart

Of public note, for traffic far renown’d,

Where Jew with Grecian, Turk with African,

Assembled, in one general peal unite

Of dreadful jargon.—Straight on wooden bench

I take my seat, and con with studious care

Th’appointed tasks; o’er many a puzzling page

Poring intent, and sage Athenian bard,

With dialect, and mood, and tense perplex’d;

And conjugations varied without end.