Note 295 — QUARRELS OF AUTHORS; (continued 2)
Reading edition
It would occupy pages to transcribe epigrams on Hill. One of them alludes to his philosophical as well as his literary character:—
“Hill puffs himself; forbear to chide! An insect vile and mean Must first, he knows, be magnified Before it can be seen.”
Garrick’s happy lines are well known on his farces:—
“For physic and farces his equal there scarce is— His farces are physic, his physic a farce is.”
Another said—
“The worse that we wish thee, for all thy vile crimes, Is to take thy own physic, and read thy own rhymes.”
The rejoinder would reverse the wish—
“For, if he takes his physic first, He’ll never read his rhymes.”