“When Burney’s picture was to Gibbon shown,
The pleased historian took it for his own;
‘For who, with shoulders dry, and powder’d locks,
E’er bath’d but I?’ He said, and rapt his box.
“Barry replied, ‘My lasting colours show
What gifts the painter’s pencil can bestow;
With nymphs of Thames, those amiable creatures,
I placed the charming minstrel’s smiling features:
But let not, then, his _bonne fortune_ concern ye,
For there are nymphs enough for you—and Burney.’”