Ye Fops, be silent: and ye Wits, be just.

I did not fully apprehend that Samuel Johnson had opinions on what we would call pundits.  From The Tragedy of Irene (1749), Prologue by Samuel Johnson.

Unmoved though Witlings sneer and Rivals rail,

Studious to please, yet not ashamed to fail.

He scorns the meek address, the suppliant strain.

With merit needless, and without it vain.

In Reason, Nature, Truth, he dares to trust:

Ye Fops, be silent: and ye Wits, be just.