Billy Pitt and the Farmer.
Solid men of Boston, make no long orations;
Solid men of Boston, drink no deep potations.
JOHN TRUMBULL.
1750-1881.
McFingal. Canto i. Line 67.
But optics sharp it needs, I ween,
To see what is not to be seen.
Canto iii. Line 489.
No man e'er felt the halter draw,
With good opinion of the law.