BENTLEY SAID OF JOSHUA BARNES,

Who, to please his religious wife, composed a Greek ode to prove King

Solomon wrote Homer's Iliad, that he was

"[Greek: Honos pros lyran]--_Asinus ad Lyram_:"

Joshua replied, that they who said this of him had not understanding

enough to be poets, or wanted the [Greek: Ho nous pros lyran].

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