EPIGRAM.
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When first the Devil came in Milton’s view A swindging Tail[24] upon his rump there grew: But when in Pandæmomium he appears How alter’d is his form! no tail he wears. Such difference in that Personage is seen As Milton by himself perceived, between His full-grown Epic and his stripling Ode— His tadpole Devil had become a Toad.