The cover, ev’n, a monument of art.

Yet as you read, Suffenus, who till then

Seemed the most pleasant of all gentlemen,

Becomes offensive as the country boor,

Who milks rank goats beside his cottage door,

Or digs foul ditches: such a change is wrought

By rhymes with neither sense nor music fraught.

So crazed is he with this same wretched rhyme,

That never does he know so blest a time

As when he writes away, and fondly deems