Sir Joshua sent his own Portrait to

Sir Joshua sent his own Portrait to
The birth Place of Michael Angelo,
And in the hand of the simpering fool
He put a dirty paper scroll,
And on the paper, to be polite,
Did 'Sketches by Michael Angelo' write.
The Florentines said ''Tis a Dutch-English bore,
Michael Angelo's Name writ on Rembrandt's door.'
The Florentines call it an English fetch,
For Michael Angelo never did sketch —
Every line of his has Meaning,
And needs neither Suckling nor Weaning.
'Tis the trading English- Venetian cant
To speak Michael Angelo, and act Rembrandt,
It will set his Dutch friends all in a roar
To write 'Mich. Ang.' on Rembrandt's door;
But you must not bring in your hand a Lie
If you mean that the Florentines should buy.
Ghiotto's Circle or Apelles' Line
Were not the Work of Sketchers drunk with Wine;
Nor of the City Clock's running . . . fashion;
Nor of Sir Isaac Newton's calculation.