‘Now, my good Friend, ’tis thus the matter stands,
‘No farmer can produce more able Hands.
‘One more Patron[59] also, there will be found
‘Who[60] Farms exclusively this Bit of Ground.
‘Of him I cannot speak, I know him not,
‘You’ll get his Character from Walter Scott:
‘Of his pretensions I am in the Dark,
‘But Folks pronounce him a D——n’d lucky Spark.
‘That wond’rous Poet’s praise I can’t him grudge,