Till our attorney had the art to raise

The dying spark, and blow it to a blaze.

For this he now began his friends to treat;

His way to starve them was to make them eat,

And drink oblivious draughts—to his applause

It must be said, he never starved a cause;

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He'd roast and boil'd upon his board—the boast

Of half his victims was his boil'd and roast—

And these at every hour: he seldom took