Thou mad'st a bonfire of his body?
Disdain'd by the Helen he fondly had wooed,
A love-stricken swain in a region campestris,
Thus "clerkly" gave vent to his sorrowful mood,
Ah! vota si mea valíssent cum Vestris! [3]
Ah me! what foggy thoughts environ
The man that reads Gait's "Life of Byron."
—Hudibras parodied.
"What pens doth Galt in general use?"
To Farthing thus said Simon Shark;