subdu'd.

Distorted Elf! to Nature a Disgrace,
Thy Mind envenom'd pictur'd in thy Face;
Malice with Envy in thy Breast combines,
And in thy Visage grav'd those ghastly Lines.
Like Plagues, like Death thy ranc'rous Arrows fly,
At Good and Bad, at Friend and Enemy.
To thy own Breast recoils the erring Dart,
Corrupts thy Blood, and rankles in thy Heart.
There swell the Poisons which thy Breast distend,
And with the Load thy Mountain Shoulders bend.
Horrid to view! retire from human Sight,
Nor with thy Figure pregnant Dames affright.
Crawl thro' thy childish Grot, growl round thy Grove,
A Foe to Man, an Antidote to Love.
In Curses waste thy Time instead of Pray'r,
(a) And with thy Breath pollute the fragrant Air.
There doze o'er _Shakespear_; then thy Blunders fell
(b) At mighty Price; this Truth let _Tonson_ tell.
Then frontless intimate, (oh perjur'd Bard!)
Thy Labours were bestow'd without Reward.
On that immortal Author wreak thy Spite,
(c) And on his Monument thy Nonsense write.
Should _Theobald_ thy presumptuous Errors shew,
Be thou to _Theobald_ an invet'rate Foe.
_Cibber_ shall foremost in thy Satyrs stand;
His Plays succeed, and thine was justly damn'd.
But _Colley_ call him, when thou would'st declame;
Great is the Jest that lies in _Colley_'s Name.

[Footnote a: It is surely allowable to treat a Man after this
manner who abuses all others, and to make this just Reflexion,
since in his new _Dunciad_ he not only calls _Mummius_ a Fool,
but uses this filthy Expression--who stinks above the Ground.]

[Footnote b: See this farther explained in the ingenious Dialogues
of _Sawney_ and _Colley_.]

[Footnote c: Tho' he was informed that Wreck was improper, yet he
was resolv'd it should be inscrib'd, because the Nonsense was in
his Edition of _Shakespear_.]

Beware all ye, whom he as Friends carest,
How ye entrust your Secrets to his Breast.
(a) On Backs of Letters was his _Homer_ wrote,
All your Affairs disclos'd to save a Groat.
He valu'd not to whom he gave Offence;
He sav'd his Paper, tho' at your Expence.

[Footnote a: When he sent his _Homer_ to his Acquaintance for
their Emendations, it was written on the Back of the Letters of
his Correspondents, whether of Business, Complement or Secrecy.
A shameful Instance of Avarice and Treachery!]

But shall a low-born Wretch the be