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