English Dictionary

To you, the Iust pretenders to the Bays;

The Poet humbly thus a Reverence pays

And you, the Contraries, that hate the Pains

Of Labour’d Sense, or of Improving Brains:

That feel the Lashes in a well-writ Play,

To you, the Iust pretenders to the Bays; The Poet humbly thus a Reverence pays And you, the Contraries, that hate the Pains Of Labour’d Sense, or of Improving Brains: That feel the Lashes in a well-writ Play, He bids perk up and smile, the Satyr sleeps to Day.