EXEXOLOR.

The shades of night had fallen (at last!)

When from the Eagle Tavern pass'd

A youth, who bore, in manual vice,

A pot of something monstrous nice—

XX—oh lor!

His brow was bad—his young eye scann'd

The frothing flagon in his hand,

And like a gurgling streamlet sprung

The accents to that thirsty tongue,