Lewesdon Hill, with other poems

by William Crowe

Thus the sweet Lark shall sing unheard,

And Philomel sit silent by;

While every vile and chattering bird

Torments the grove with ribald cry.

And see what witless Bards presume

With buskin’d fools to rhyme and rage;

While Mason’s idle Muse is dumb,

And weary Garrick quits the Stage.

[17] Personification of the passions in the moralities.

[18] Gammer Gurton’s Needle is the oldest English comedy; the distress of it arises from the loss of the needle, which at last is discovered in her man Hodge’s breeches.