On, mighty Rhimer, haste new Palms to seize, Thy little, envious, angry Genius teize; Let thy weak wilful Head, unrein’d by Art, Obey the Dictates of thy flatt’ring Heart; Divide a busy, fretful Life between Smut, Libel, Sing-song, Vanity, and Spleen; With long-brew’d Malice warm thy languid Page, And urge delirious Nonsense into Rage; Let bawdy Emblems, now, thy Hours beguile; Now, Fustian Epic, aping _Virgil_’s Stile; To _Virgil_ like, to _Indian_ Clay as _Delf_, Or _Pulteney_, drawn by _Jervase_, to Herself: Rheams heap’d on Rheams, incessant, mayst thou blot, A lively, trifling, pert, one knows not what! Form thy light Measures, nimbler than the Wind, Whilst heavy lingring Sense is left behind; With all thy Might pursue, and all thy Will, That unabating Thirst, to scribble still, Giv’n at thy Birth! the Poetaster’s Gust, False and unsated as the Eunuch’s Lust! Illustrious Fops, mean time, o’er-rate thy Lays, And blooming Critics, as they spell thee, praise: Blest Coupleteer! by blooming Critics read, At Toilets _ogled_, and with Sweetmeats fed: See, lisping Toilers grace thy _Dunciad_’s Cause, And scream their witty Scavenger’s Applause, While powder’d Wits, and lac’d Cabals rehearse Thy bawdy _Cento_, and thy _Bead-roll_ Verse; Gay, bugled Statesmen on thy Side debate, And libel’d Blockheads court thee, tho’ they hate. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Fools of all Kinds their Suffrages impart, The Fools of Nature, and the Fools of Art. These in thy threadbare Farce shall Beauties show, Shall praise thy ribald Mirth, and maudlin Woe; Praise ev’n thy imitating _Chaucer_’s Tales, And call that merry * Temple, Fame’s _Versailles_: Thy ‡ Shepherd-Song with Rapture they shall see, Which rivals _Philips_, as _Banks_ rivals _Lee_; Thy † _Guernsey_ and _Barbados_ Wreath shall own, Where _Durfey_ ne’er was read, nor _Settle_ known; That Wreath, that Name, which thro’ both Worlds is gone, Which Doctor (e) _Y----_ applauds, and _Prestor John_. [Footnote *: Temple of Fame by _P----_] [Footnote ‡: _P----pe_’s Pastorals.] [Footnote †: See the Original Preface to the _Dunciad_.]