The 42nd line of this poem, "The like was ne'er in Epsom blankets toss'd" alludes to the 1688 drama The Sullen Lovers. Just as Aeneas passed Rome to his son Ascanius, the poet imagines the namesake third-rate poetaster passing the empire of dullness 
The 42nd line of this poem, "The like was ne'er in Epsom blankets toss'd" alludes to the 1688 drama The Sullen Lovers. Just as Aeneas passed Rome to his son Ascanius, the poet imagines the namesake third-rate poetaster passing the empire of dullness to the satire's subject, "Who stands confirmed in full stupidity." A response for the attack on the poet in The Medal of John Bayes, \--For 10 points-- name this satirical poem, the work in which the true blue Protestant, Thomas Shadwell, is lampooned by John Dryden.
The 42nd line of this poem, "The like was ne'er in Epsom blankets toss'd" alludes to the 1688 drama The Sullen Lovers.
“{Mac Flecknoe}, or A Satire upon the True-Blue-Protestant Poet, T.S. ”