How fleet is the growth of a fib!
The astonishing speed of its flight
Outstrips the less mischievous squib
Let off on a holiday night.
Then who would not vamp up a fudge,
“When he knows how it helps off his papers
Were it not—that the thought of the judge
Overcasts him, and gives him the vapours?
But Cobbett has got his discharge—