Snoring like twenty thousand hogs.
Yet circumstance did, presently, require
The Knight to tell his tale;
And to instruct his Man, knock’d down with ale,
That he (Sir Thomas) had knock’d down a Friar.
How wake a man, in such a case?
Sir, the best method—I have tried a score—
Is, when his nose is playing thoro’ bass,
To pull it, till you make him roar.
A Sleeper’s nose is made on the same plan