Here rests his head upon a folio terse,

An Author, once to wits and patrons known;

The Critics frown’d not on his humble verse,

Nor did the world his labours quite disown.

Large his editions, but his readers few;

Fate did a recompence as largely send,

He wisely bade to Booksellers adieu,

And (in their stead) each Chandler found a friend.

No longer now pil’d up in useless state,

His pages freely circulate thro’ town: