[20] ]But see, just return’d from a voyage, the Pewit;
He’ll treat us, I fear, with a spice of his sea-wit:
No—he cuts us, I vow!—I conclude that with him
No birds are worth knowing but birds that can swim.”
(Daw.) “That long-legged Stick is a Stork, I suppose;—
Pray why does he strut so, and rise on his toes?
No creature his stars has less reason to thank:
When you’ve mentioned his neck, and his bill, and his shank,
There’s no more to be said—for his body’s a blank;
And yet this was the Tyrant commissioned to teaze up