"Vexed?"—roused from what else were insipid ease!
Leave snoring abed to Pheidippides!
We 'll up and work! won't we, Euripides?
AT THE "MERMAID"
The figure that thou here seest ... Tut!
Was it for gentle Shakespeare put?
B. Jonson. (Adapted.)
I—"Next Poet?" No, my hearties,
I nor am nor fain would be!
Choose your chiefs and pick your parties,