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Rh Though, by their idiom and grimace, They soon betray their native place: Yet thou hast greater cause to be Asham'd of them, than they of thee, Degenerate from their ancient brood, Since first the court allow'd them food. Remains a difficulty still, To purchase fame by writing ill. From Flecknoe down to Howard's time, How few have reach'd the low sublime! For when our high-born Howard died, Blackmore alone his place supplied: And, lest a chasm should intervene, When death had finish'd Blackmore's reign, The leaden crown devolv'd to thee, Great poet of the hollow tree. . VIII.