Footnotes

[432:1]

Solid men of Boston, make no long orations!

Solid men of Boston, banish strong potations!

Billy Pitt and the Farmer. From Debrett's Asylum for Fugitive Pieces, vol. ii. p. 250.


A. M. TOPLADY.  1740-1778.

Rock of Ages, cleft for me,

Let me hide myself in thee.

Salvation through Christ.


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THOMAS MOSS.  1740-1808.

Pity the sorrows of a poor old man,

Whose trembling limbs have borne him to your door,

Whose days are dwindled to the shortest span;

Oh give relief, and Heaven will bless your store.

The Beggar.

A pampered menial drove me from the door.[433:1]

The Beggar.