Their business finish’d, to sit down and dine;
This gave him pleasure, for he judged it right
To show by day that he could speak at night.
Rash the design - for he perceived, too late,
Not one approving friend beside him sate;
The greater number, whom he traced around,
Were men in black, and he conceived they frown’d.
“I will not speak,” he thought; “no pearls of mine
Shall be presented to this herd of swine;”
Not this avail’d him, when he cast his eye