In rhymes, that had Sternhold himself out-Sternholded.
Then Byron and Juan eternally lamming him,
Play’d the devil with him—so he set about damning him;
And if to his foes or his friends he a grudge meant,
What could he do worse than his Vision of Judgment!
But ’twas fit that this model of tergiversation,
Who began in sedition, should end in damnation.
To atone for all this, what must now be his lot?
Shall he “lie” like his Works “in obstruction and rot?”
No—let him be punished by quitting his urn to