May we cease to admire each ostensible Name,

And, blest with those Pleasures the Muses desire,

See Learning, unenvied, to Students retire!

[FROM BELVOIR CASTLE.]

[About 1782–3.]

Oh! had I but a little hut

That I might hide my head in;

Where never guest might dare molest,

Unwelcome or unbidden.

I’d take the jokes of other folks