"'Each flow'r of Billingsgate I'll cull,
To render thee, my son, more dull,
If duller thou canst be,
Thy works with Sternhold's shall be bound,
While Hopkins, from the dark profound,
Shall yield the palm to thee.'
"She ceas'd, and all that own'd her cause,
In one loud transport of applause,
Burst like a sudden gale;
All hail, great man! was Bailey's cry,
Hail! Joe, and Skunk, and Tom, reply,
Dullness and Fr—n—u, hail!"
[a] Cryer of Philadelphia.
The Queen of Dullness.
[c] Dr. Corcoran, a poetaster, well known.
[d] Jemmy, the rover, a sonnetter of the Pennsylvania line.
[197] "To him apply, dear Oswald, in distress."—Independent Gazetteer.