A great (cheers), good (shouts), just (roars) measure."

Enough! O frantic fools who rave

And call it "Temperance"! This body

Would drive me to an early grave;

I'll hurry home and get some toddy.


ADVICE TO A YOUNG PARTY SCRIBE.

You may, an it please you, be dull,

(For Britons deem dulness "respectable");

Stale flowers of speech you may cull,