When talking nonsense—“yonder dunce
For folly has no relish.”
The solemn bore, who holds that speech
Was given us to prose and preach,
And not for lighter usance,
Straight should be sent to Coventry;
Or omnium concensu, be
Indicted as a nuisance.
Though dull the joke, ‘tis wise to laugh,
Parch’d be the tongue that cannot quaff