Or Ashmy snatch the horn!

Don’t ever to such rows give birth,

As if you had no end on earth,

Except to “wake the lyre;”

Don’t “strike the harp,” pray never do,

Till others long to strike it too;

Perpetual harping’s apt to tire;

Oh I have heard such flat-and-sharpers,

I’ve blest the head

Of good King Ned,