Like his Name-sake of old, our Day's Johnson, we find, In the Mask of a Friend, to depreciate inclin'd, That Apollo of Britain's Parnassus, our Shakespear, Who in Poetry's Tilt, of each Rival can break Spear.— But let me, Oh *Mahomet Johnson, assure ye, In England, you're neither his Judge or his Jury!
*Vide (in Drury-Lane Register of Births and Burials) Mahomet and Irene, (avowed Issue of this admirable Editor) born and deceased Anno 1750 — or — 1751.
