And I wish I may suffer, with you, hell’s worst pain,

If ever I visit a Lawyer again!”

SOCIAL EVENINGS.

I Love not, at peep of day,

To chase, with dogs, a timid prey;

My heart is rather prone to spare,

The stately stag, the harmless hare:

For, with a faithful, gen’rous friend,

I would my Social Evenings spend.

Lur’d by the chearful Noontide-heat,