_Praise undeserved_.--The correct quotation, referred to in No.
14. p. 222., is

"Praise undeserved is _Satire_ in disguise."

It is by Mr. Br----st, author of a copy of verses called the
_British Beauties_. I cannot fill up the "hiatus," which in
this case is not "maxime deflendus," because I have now no time to
search the Museum Catalogue. I apprehend that the author belonged to
the "mob of gentlemen who wrote with ease," as it is something like
Savage's "tenth transmitter" (which, by the bye, your correspondent,
Mr. Gutch, should have said is _said_ to be Pope's)--his
_only good_ line. Here is my authority:


EPIGRAM

_On a certain line of Mr. Br----, author of a copy of verses
called the "British Beauties."--From the_ "GARLAND," _a
collection of Poems_, 1721.

"When one good line did much my wonder raise
In Br----st's works, I stood resolved to praise;
And had, but that the modest _author_ cries,
_Praise undeserv'd is satire in disguise_."

I would add, that I believe this Epigram to be Dr. Kenrick's,
Goldsmith's old persecutor in later years.