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Langton's having told me, that this poem, when read in manuscript at sir Joshua Reynolds's, had made all the assembled wits burst into a laugh, when, after much blank-verse pomp, the poet began a new paragraph thus : Now, Muse, let's sing of rats.

The General Biographical Dictionary:: Containing an Historical and Critical ... - Pagina 169
door Alexander Chalmers - 1814
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The World's Great Masterpieces: History, Biography, Science ..., Volume 4

Harry Thurston Peck - 1901 - 438 pagina’s

...that one of the company, who slyly overlooked the reader, perceived that the word had been originally mice, and had been altered to rats, as more dignified. This passage does not appear in the printed work, Dr. Grainier, or some of his friends, it should seem, having become...

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