Peripatetick.”

When such choice oratory has not hit,

When it is, e’en, unanswer’d by a grunt,

’Twould justify tame Job to curse a bit,

And set an Angler swearing, in his punt.

Cholerick Roger could not brook it;—

So seeing a huge brick-bat, up he took it;

And aiming, like a marksman at a crow,

Plump on the breast he hit his deadly foe;

Who fell, like Pedants’ periods, to the ground,—