In the following number of The Anti-Jacobin (December 18, 1797), another parody of the same original appeared:—
The Soldier’s Wife.
Imitation Dactylics.
(Being the quintessence of all the Dactylics
that ever were, or ever will be written.)
Wearisome Sonnetteer, feeble and querulous,
Painfully dragging out thy demo-cratic lays—
Moon-stricken Sonnetteer, “Ah! for thy heavy chance.”
Sorely thy Dactylics lay on uneven feet;
Slow is the syllable which thou would’st urge to speed,