Not good is an Earl without English;
Not good is a sailor, if old;
Not good is a bishop without warrant;
Not good is a blemish on an elder;
Not good a priest with but one eye;
Not good a parson if a beggar;
Not good is a palace without pay;
Not good is a handmaid if she’s slow;
Not good is a lord without a dwelling, &c.
The author of the following verses was neither the first nor the last that fathered their petty productions on poor Ossian.