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Thus, having giv'n a full display
Of what our laureat says, or meant to say;
I'll beg of Thomas to instruct my ears,
Why, in his verses, he should call
The knights who grac'd the high-arch'd hall,
A set of bears ?
 

Vide the word Savage, in the laureat's Ode for the New Year.