Such critics are but blowflies, their small skill
To carrion given wholly.
"Not all the Romans of Domitian's days
Were such as live in Juvenal's savage lays;
Not all the Latian ladies
Were Hippias or Collatias. Neither here
May all be gauged by satire's rule severe,
Or earth would be a Hades.
"The scalpel hath no terrors for the sound,
Nor is the hand that wields it harshly bound