Broomsticks on no punctilios ftand, Ready alike for every hand: So I my skill and powers would fuit, One femblance more of me (God knows) "Here lies-THE MODEL OF A BROOMSTICK!" FROM a fcrub book, no matter what, From straw and packthread it's round fnout, As if it held my ears in ftrings. Ask you upon what theme it dwells? -Hear then the tale, a dead Pig tells ! Firft, Sir, and foremoft, thus it faith, "That Rumour is not ground for Faith." -No great discovery I allow ; Yet mighty welcome doctrine now: For Rumour you must know, with too many Had laid you up-and would, no doubt, Of Men alive, and fit to live -An hand to write -an heart to give. Moreover, it fets forth, as fully, As if 't had ftudied under TULLY, An odd old Comrade's name can fill Am I then an ill eftimator, Who call your Pig a PRIME ORátor? To give a fillip to the heart, Try Pigs, and Speech-makers ad libitum, When, where, and how you please, exhibit 'em, Yet from earth's furface to it's centre, You'll never find an eloquenter. So much for rhyme.-Defcende, PEGASE!— -What! and forget Dame HANWAY's Legacy!The Pig indeed spoke not a word on't ; Perhaps, because it never heard on't; Perhaps, because it would not puff: * -But JEM's authority's enough: * Dr. Altham's brother. And JEM has ftated an account Of Goods and Monies;-whofe amount TO MR. AND MRS. SCOTT. ON THEIR MARRIAGE. WHAT Dower has gentle KATE to fhow?" -Good-humour's comfortable glow; Voice, gefture, looks, that fay, One tried in pious Duty's part, A Maid with all a Mother's heart, Becomes a Bride to-day. |