Who dextrously the Bailiffs oft has dodged,
Or made the sleepy watchmen nimbly fly.
Some sturdy Humphries, that with brawny fists,
Well skill’d in Boxing’s scientific lore,
Defied the Sons of Israel to the lists,
And beat their champion till he rose no more.
Some Peter Pindar here has tun’d his lyre,
Or some sagacious Pig here learn’d to read;
Some Juggler chewed a stone, or swallowed fire;
Or here to eat live cats ’twas first decreed.