So take my advice, tour there in a trice,

These provident paragons view;

So splendid and pretty, so worthy, and witty,

You’ll never have reason to rue.


THE FRACTIOUS FARMER.
A SONG.—1792.

A farmer near Felton, fam’d for vulgar fractions,

Both testy and stubborn in all his transactions;

With fraud and with falsehoods to litigate labours,

A plague to the public, and pest to his neighbours.