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Bethink thee (Gifford); when some future age
Shall trace the promise of thy playful page;—
“ The hand which brush'd a swarm of fools away,
“Should rouse to grasp a more reluctant prey!”—
Think then, will pleaded indolence excuse
The tame secession of thy languid Muse?
 

See the motto prefixed to “The Baviad,” a satirical poem by W. Gifford, Esq. unquestionably the best of its kind since the days of Pope:

------ Nunc in ovilia
Mox in reluctantes dracones.
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