Those Gates which thou didst alway shun,
To save thy Pence from every one.
Alas! this needless cost is more
Than all th’ extravagance before!
To stop such charge, at least, arise
And show them—where the Bye-way lies!
PARODY
ON DRYDEN’S “THREE POETS,” &c.
Three Poets, born in different lands and ages,
Three different Heroes took to grace their pages: