The merits of martial and maritime law.
Earl Heron walk’d stately with Caroline Crane,
And Field-marshal Falcon, of valour so vain;
[p34] While Captain Crown Pigeon, so odd in his tread,
Shook the quaking-grass tuft on his fanciful head.
Lord Peacock, from Asia, came dress’d very fine—
His musical taste ne’er accorded with mine;
And the learn’d Baron Buzzard, who gravely decided,
That game, when once caught, should be fairly divided.
The grenadier, Captain Curassow, was drest