On the Great Encouragement

On the great encouragement given by English nobility and gentry to Correggio, Rubens, Reynolds, Gainsborough, Catalani, Du Crow, and Dilbury Doodle

AS the ignorant savage will sell his own wife For a sword, or a cutlass, a dagger, or knife; So the taught, savage Englishman, spends his whole fortune On a smear, or a squall, to destroy picture or tune; And I call upon Colonel Wardle To give these rascals a dose of caudle!