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Rh Mr. Welſted was likewiſe characteriſed in the Treatiſe of the Art of Sinking, as a Didapper, and after as an Eel. He was likewiſe deſcribed under the character of another animal, a Mole, by the author of the following ſimile, which was handed about at the ſame time.

But mentioning him once was not enough for Mr. Pope. He is again celebrated in the third book, in that famous Parody upon Denham’s Cooper’s Hill,

Which Mr. Pope has thus parodied;

How far Mr. Pope’s inſinuation is true, that Mr. Welſted owed his inſpiration to beer, they who read