Four pipes after dinner he constantly smokes;

And seasons his whiffs with impertinent jokes.

Yet sighing, he says, we must certainly break,

And my cruel unkindness compels him to speak:

For of late I invite him—but four times a week.


Yes, every poet is a fool:

By demonstration Ned can show it:

Happy, could Ned’s inverted rule

Prove every fool to be a poet.