HORACE SURPASSED.

How funny ’tis, when pretty lads and lasses

Meet altogether, just to have a caper,

And the black fiddler plays you such a tune as

Sets you a frisking.

High bucks and ladies, standing in a row all,

Make finer show than troops of continentals.

Balance and foot it, rigadoon and chasse,

Brimful of rapture.

Thus poets tell us how one Mister Orpheus