Next Percy the great did appear;
And Farmer, who twice in a pamphlet had sinn’d,
Brought up his empirical rear.
“The cooks the more numerous, the worse is the broth,”
Says a proverb I well can believe;
And yet to condemn them untried I am loth,
So at present shall laugh in my sleeve.
Gentleman’s Magazine, 1787, vol. lvii. ii. 912. Muses’ Mirror, 1778, i. 90.
“Edwards,”—the author of Canons of Criticism, see p. 281.