Your wit, Peter Pindar, is brilliant and smart, But I think, on our King you're a little too tart; He's a subject too high for your ludicrous pen, The first of all Kings, and the best of all men. But if I may judge, from the turn of your satire, You've republican principles — a perfect King-hater; Your Lousiad is full of wit, slander and malice; And, believe me, had you ere frequented the palace, And o'er the whole house been appointed the ranger, I dare say a louse, had not been such a stranger.
