And justly: for, without a crime,
I can’t describe it e’en in rhyme:
So nobly bred, so nobly taught,
In speech as lib’ral as in thought:
News he can tell, untold before,
All that he knows, and ten times more:
And yet, upon his magpie tongue
Truth, sense, and wit alike are hung:
His honor——I recall the word,
Of that my muse has never heard;