Is needful to transcribe it fair:

In modern wit all printed trash is

Set off with num’rous breaks—and dashes—

To statesmen would you give a wipe

You print it in Italic type:

When letters are in vulgar shapes,

’Tis ten to one the wit escapes;

But when in Capitals exprest,

The dullest reader smokes the jest;

Or else perhaps he may invent