ABSTRACT
POEMS: Mr. Tibbald, it is not so necessary, unless the cabbage be supposed to signify the same thing with respect to poets as to taylors, viz. stealing. 1 I should judge it not amiss to add another plant to this garland, to wit, ivy: Not only as it anciently belonged to poets in general; but as it is emblematical of the three virtues of a court poet in particular; it is creeping, dirty, and dangling. 2
In the next place, a canticle must be composed and sung in laud and praise of the new poet. If Mr. C IB B E R be laureated, it is my opinion no man can write this but himself: And no man, I am sure, can sing it so affectingly. 3 But what this canticle should be, either in his or the other candidates' case, I shall not pretend to determine.
