Or grins for hours, or tipples for a week;
Or challenges a well-pinch'd pig to squeak.
Some idle deed, some child's preposterous name,
Shall make him known, and give his folly fame.
To name an infant meet our village-sires,
Assembled all, as such event requires;
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Frequent and full, the rural sages sate,
And speakers many urged the long debate.
Some harden'd knaves, who roved the country round,