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—