Measures the column, mends whate’er’s amiss,
Rejects THAT letter, and accepts of THIS;
Or Hammond, leaving his official toil,
O’er this great work consume the midnight oil—
Bills, passports, letters, for the Muses quit,
And change dull business for amusing wit.’
“After referring to ‘the poetic sage, who sung of Gallia in a headlong rage,’ The Epistle proceeds:—
“‘I swear by all the youths that Malmesbury chose,[[2]]
By Ellis’ sapient prominence of nose—
By Morpeth’s gait, important, proud and big—