Envy, for all your outside show,
How you decry my work I know!
All that is neat you say I had
From Esop, mine whate'er is bad.
To those to me so ill inclin'd
I answer thus: "Esop design'd,
And I have polish'd:" On I write,
Undauntedly in envy's spight.
Source: Boothby - Phaedrus 4.19.
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