Note 21 — AN ESSAY ON THE ROMAN SATIRISTS, BY WILLIAM GIFFORD, ESQ.
Lewis Evans translation
Mr. Drummond has given this passage with equal elegance and truth:
"With greater art sly Horace gain'd his end, But spared no failing of his smiling friend; Sportive and pleasant round the heart he play'd, And wrapt in jests the censure he convey'd; With such address his willing victims seized, That tickled fools were rallied, and were pleased."