Of thus sitting in judgment upon my Lord ’Size.
Now the Mansion-house Butler thus gravely depos’d:—
“My Lord on the terrace seem’d studying his charge;
And when (as I thought) he had got it compos’d,
He went down the stairs and examin’d the barge.
First the stem he survey’d, then inspected the stern,
Then handled the tiller, and look’d mighty wise;
But he made a false step when about to return,
And souse in the river straight tumbled Lord ’Size.”
Now his narrative ended—the Butler retir’d,