But wilily he changed his plan,
Shaped it to something like a man,
And ca’d it Andrew Horner.
After Burke had finished his extraordinary speech against Warren Hastings, the latter (according to the testimony of his private secretary, Mr. Evans) wrote the following sarcastic impromptu:—
Oft have we wondered that on Irish ground
No poisonous reptile ever yet was found;
The secret stands revealed in Nature’s work:
She saved her venom to create a Burke!
Dr. Johnson’s definition of a note of admiration (!), made on the moment, is very neat:—
I see—I see—I know not what: