"Made for excuse, you see, upon the whole,
The too great number of words, that poll
For correspondency to ev'ry line;
And make the meant one tedious to divine:
But we suspect that other points ambiguous,
And eke unfair, contribute to fatigue us.
For first, with due submission to our betters;
What antient city would have eighteen letters?
Or more?—for, in the latter lines, the clue
May have one correspondent word or two: