'Others, that I belabour'd, held their tongues.'"

"Did any one, that he was happy, cry—

Johnson would tell him plumply, 'twas a lie.

A Lady told him she was really so;

On which he sternly answer'd, 'Madam, no!

'Sickly you are, and ugly—foolish, poor;

'And therefore can't he happy, I am sure.

''Twould make a fellow hang himself, whose ear

'Were, from such creatures, forc'd such stuff to hear.'"

BOZZY.