Wit and the Laws had both the same Ill Fate, And Partial Tyrants sway'd in either State. Ill-natur'd Censure would be sure to damn An Alien-Wit of Independent Fame, While Bays grown old, and harden'd in Offence, Was suffer'd to write on in Spite of Sense; Back't by his Friends, th' Invader brought along A Crew of Foreign Words into our Tongue, To ruin and enslave the Freeborn English Song; Still the prevailing Faction propt his Throne, And to Four Volumes let his Plays run on.
