DR. DARWIN. 71 



couplet, is moft abfurdly changed tojwain, 

 becaufe it chimed more completely to the 

 foregoing rhyme, Jlra'm, at the expenfe of 

 every thing like fenfe and accuracy in the 

 appofite terms ; at the expenfe of making 

 a bird and a man fly equal heights ere 

 balloons were dreamed of. Mr. Seward 

 was often heard to laugh at this inftancs 

 of editorial prefumption and ftupidity*. 



Another of the Lichfield literati, over- 

 looked by the arrogant Johnfon, was the 

 Reverend Arch-Deacon Vyfe, the amiable 

 the excellent father of the prefent inge- 

 nious Dr. Vyfe of Lambeth, and his gal- 

 lant brother General Vyfe. Mr. Vyfe was 

 not only a man of learning, but of Prioric 

 talents in the metrical impromptu. Gentle 

 reader, behold an inftance ! and if thou 

 hateft not rhyme, as does many an ungentle 

 reader, " worfe than toad or afp," thou 

 wilt not think it intrufive. 



* This gentleman was father of the writer of thefe 

 memoirs. 



F 4 Mrs* 



