John Sheffield, Duke of Buckinghamshire, imitating Suckling's "Session of the Poets," brings all the versifiers of the time into the canvas, and after humorously dispatching one after another, not sparing himself, closes, "At last, in rushed Eusden, and cried, 'Who shall have it,

Some late writers, under the notion of imitating these two great versifiers in this point, run into downright affectation, and are guilty of the most improper and ridiculous expressions, provided there be but an alliteration.

The reader may observe that the stanzas are reasonably smooth, and mark him a tolerable versifier.