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.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.