Was borne through Binning on its homeward way.
“Knew you the Knight? Our Rector knew him well,
And he’ll the story of his feelings tell,
That show at least he had them.—Let us dine,
I’ll introduce the subject with the wine.
It is a compound story, if he paints
The whole—and we must ply him, if he faints.
The tale foreshorten’d, nothing is descried,
But certain persons, that they lived and died;
But let him fill the canvas, and he brings }