In spite of sacred leisure, blockheads still;

Nor shoots up folly to a nobler bloom

In her own native soil, the drawing-room.

The squire is proud to see his coursers strain,

Or well-breath'd beagles sweep along the plain.

Say, dear Hippolitus, (whose drink is ale,

Whose erudition is a Christmas tale,

Whose mistress is saluted with a smack,

And friend receiv'd with thumps upon the back,)

When thy sleek gelding nimbly leaps the mound,