Then the Jew, with his box, did depart,

And the Poet took leave of his crib,

But the Parson, unwilling to start,

Took another sly st—ke at his rib;

If you think, then, my tale worth a toast,

As we’ve here no parsonical prig,

I’ll bumper life’s pleasure, and boast

The Parson, his wife, the goat’s fig.

[3] The box he carried was half pushed under the bed, on the corner of which he fell.