TO CYRIACK SKINNER.

[Cyriack, whose grandsire] on the royal bench

Of British [Themis], with no mean applause,

Pronounced, and in his volumes taught, our laws,

Which others at their bar so often wrench,

To-day deep thoughts resolve with me to drench 5

In mirth that after no repenting draws;

[Let Euclid rest, and Archimedes pause],

[And what the Swede intend, and what the French].

To measure life learn thou betimes, and know