The enticing Concert’s more attractive pow’r,

Unlock’d a Miser’s pocket at threescore:

O strange effect of music’s matchless force,

To extract a dollar from a full stown purse.


THE CLOWN AND THE LAWYER.

Hob visited Brief, with a very long face,

Put a piece in his palm, and then stated his case.

Quoth the Lawyer—“As far as I yet understand,

You are right as my nail, I declare by this hand: