Lacemen and placemen, ministers and wits,

And Quakers of both sexes, much enjoying

A morning’s reading by the ocean’s rim,

That sect delighting in the sea’s broad brim.

AN ABRIDGMENT OF ALL THAT IS PLEASANT IN MAN.

And lo! amongst all these appear’d a creature,

So small, he almost might a twin have been,

With Miss Crachami—dwarfish quite in stature,

Yet well proportion’d—neither fat nor lean,