1791 ENGLISH POETRY 1579-1830: SPENSER AND THE TRADITION

Edward Bysshe

William Gifford, in The Baviad (1791) 27.

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Happy the soil where bards like mushrooms rise,
And ask no culture but what Bysche supplies!
Happier the bards, who, write whate'er they will,
Find gentle readers to admire them still!