As brokers on molasses.

I knew a man, from glass to delf,

Who talk'd of nothing but himself,

'Till check'd by a vertigo;

The party who beheld him "fluor'd,"

Bent o'er the liberated board,

And cried, "Hic jacet ego."

Some aim to tell a thing that hit

Where last they dined; what there was wit

Here meets rebuffs and crosses.