Christopher Smart

“ Employ ('tis better, I aver)
Old Grub the fairies coach-maker;
For he who has sufficient art
To make a coach, may make a cart.
55To these you'll yoke some sixteen bees,
Who will dispatch your work with ease ”

“ Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge succeeded Newton. ↑ 106. Jobson: a country fellow, a lout.↑ 107. Hardwick: Philip Yorke, Earl of Hardwicke (1690-1764) , was courted as a patron of learning and the arts.↑ 110. William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield (1705-93) was renowned for his oratory based on intensive study of classical models. Murray's wife Elizabeth Finch was the sister of Smart's patron, Duchess of Cleveland. ↑ 111. Henry Vane, 3rd Baron Barnard, Earl of Darlington (1705-58) was Smart's patron. ”

“ And active idleness at best.”
1754 Notes Composed not latter than March 1754. First published: no information. Text: 1791.
↑ 15. assert: lay claim to.↑ 32. Fransis Hayman a painter, member of Royal Academy and friend of Smart provided illustrations for his Poems on Several Occasions (1752) .↑ 62. Gunter's line: the rule of proportion introduced by the mathematician Edmund Gunter.↑ 66. ”