When he said a great Pleader had stolen a spoon!”
“It is false!” cried a little bird, known as a wag;
“And I would indite him, at once, for Scan. Mag.”
All the Company now rais’d their pinions and eyes,
And protested their plumes stood on end with surprise!
While young Mrs. Pee-wit, dear sweet gentle creature!
Evinc’d her abhorrence in every feature:
[p18] Her soft bosom swell’d, and she thought it was grievous,
That malice should lead the world thus to deceive us:
For she too had heard a long, odious relation