While o’er the social jug and decent cheer,

Shall be described the fortunes of the year.

Peruse these bills, and see what each can do, -

Behold! the prince, the slave, the monk, the Jew;

Change but the garment, and they’ll all engage

To take each part, and act in every age:

Cull’d from all houses, what a house are they!

Swept from all barns, our Borough-critics say;

But with some portion of a critic’s ire,

We all endure them; there are some admire: