EPIGRAMS.
"Upon his arrival at Perthshire, his Majesty is to be received by a band of two hundred men, entirely of the Mac clan, arrayed in the ancient national costume."—Scotsman.
In Scotia our king's to be blessed with a treat,
A balleting one if the Scotch have their nacks,
For the papers put forth he's at Perthshire to meet,
Dressed in tartan and bonnet, a band of all "Macs." (Almacks.)
Which wert thou, cruel Bishop Bonner,
A savage wit, or senseless noddy,
When to extinguish Ridley's faith,
Thou mad'st a bonfire of his body?
Disdain'd by the Helen he fondly had wooed,
A love-stricken swain in a region campestris,
Thus "clerkly" gave vent to his sorrowful mood,
Ah! vota si mea valíssent cum Vestris! [3]
Ah me! what foggy thoughts environ
The man that reads Gait's "Life of Byron."
—Hudibras parodied.
"What pens doth Galt in general use?"
To Farthing thus said Simon Shark;
"Mostly the Nocto-Polygraph,
Or pen that writes Sir—in the dark."
PUN-ICUS.