Note 139 — OUR FOREIGN RELATIONS: SHOWING (continued 2)
Reading edition
Odyssey, tr. Pope, Book X. 133.
Other verses, by Richard Owen Cambridge, the satirist, and contemporary of Dr. Johnson, picture this Slavemonger Government:—
“Polypheme was a cannibal, And most voracious glutton; Poor shipwrecked tars he smoused for fish, And munched marines for mutton.”