Brewer's: Bavius

Any bad poet. (See Baviad.)

May some choice patron bless each grey goose quill, May every Bavius have his Bufo still.

Pope: Prologue to the Satires,
249-50.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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