Or such as travell’d ’cross the land to view
A Christian’s conflict with a boxing Jew:
Some too had run upon Newmarket heath
With so much speed that they were out of breath;
Others had tasted claret, till they now
To humbler port would turn, and knew not how.
All these for favours would to Swallow run,
Who never sought their thanks for all he’d done;
He kindly took them by the hand, then bow’d
Politely low, and thus his love avow’d -