Page:Boileau's Lutrin - a mock-heroic poem. In six canto's. Render'd into English verse. To which is prefix'd some account of Boileau's writings, and this translation. (IA boileauslutrinmo00boil).pdf/125

 All arm themselves with Ammunition Books, Contract their Brows, and Threaten with their Looks: One with vindictive Hand light Durfy shakes; Another, Wycherly more weighty, takes; A Third tore Westly from the Dusty Wood, Where long untouch'd the Mouldy Epic stood; A fourth Up-heaves a leaden Basnage high, Stuff'd with Rabbinical Philosophy. Lo, a tremendous Typhon Guards the Front, With Enterprizing Lt's Name upon't. Oh! had'st thou, Mighty Nurse of Dulness, liv'd I'th' bright Augustan Age, we had receiv'd The Bavian Works entire; Mævius by Thee Had been Immortal as The Hollow Tree.

The Absent Biblio's Prentice strives in vain, Their more than Gothick Madness to restrain. Volumes