But recollecting—'Bozzy, Bozzy,' cry'd—
For in contractions Johnson took a pride!"
MADAME PIOZZI.
"I ask'd him if he knock'd Tom Osborn down;
As such a tale was current through the town,—
Says I, 'Do tell me, Doctor, what befell.'—
'Why, dearest lady, there is nought to tell;
'I ponder'd on the proper'st mode to treat him—
'The dog was impudent, and so I beat him!
'Tom, like a fool, proclaim'd his fancied wrongs;