Who is Saint Prosper talking about here?

Question

Through the years, I have used this poem as my:

ODE TO VARIOUS JACKASSES

Prosper really hated this guy.

“A scribbler vile, inflamed with hellish spite,

Against the great Augustine dared to Write;

Presumptuous serpent! from what midnight den

Durst thou to crawl on earth and look at men?

Sure thou was fed on Britain’s sea-girt plains,

Or in thy breast Vesuvian sulphur reigns.”

Answer 1

i smell donkey. ya.

Answer 2

St. Morgan of Wales, aka Pelagius Britto. See http://members.tripod.com/cornwall_phoen...

Answer 3

He is writing about an obnoxious critic.  Or another sort of jackass!

Answer 4

Apparently he is talking about various jackasses...Faceless, cowardly jackasses.

Answer 5

Persons of this ilk live even unto today. It will be ever thus. Were it not so, we would be living in Heaven--not on the Earth.

Answer 6

More importantly, who are you talking about?.  Let's see, very vague...hidden, ah, perhaps a four letter word comes to mind.  A word that echoes through the halls of sophomoric tripe.  

Answer 7

And who is Bede speaking to by including this in his history?