“He!” cried the dame, grimacing her disgust,

“I like him?—yes—as any body must

An infidel that scoffs at God and Devil:

Didn’t he bring you Bonaparty’s bust?

Lord! when he calls I hardly can be civil—

My favourite was always Mr. Neville.

“Lorenzo?—I should like, of earthly things,

To see him hanging forty cubits high;

Doesn’t he write like Captain Rocks and Swings?

Nay, in this very letter bid you try