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SEE who ne'er was or will be half read! Who first sung Arthur, then sung Alfred ; Prais'd great Eliza in God's anger, Till all true Englishmen cried, Hang her! Made William's virtues wipe the bare a—, And hanged up Marlborough in arras : Then, hiss'd from earth, grew heavenly quite: Made every reader curse the light ; Maul'd human wit, in one thick satire ; Next in three books sent Human Nature ; Undid Creation at a jerk; And of Redemption made damn'd work. Then took his Muse, at once, and dipp'd her Full in the middle of the Scripture: What wonders there the man grown old did! Sternhold himself he out-Sternholded; . XVII.