[64]. Compare his songs with Burns’s.
[65]. .sp 1
‘There was a little man, and he had a little soul,
And he said, Little soul, let us try,’ &c.
Parody on
‘There was a little man, and he had a little gun.—
One should think this exquisite ridicule of a pedantic effusion might have silenced for ever the automaton that delivered it: but the official personage in question at the close of the Session addressed an extra-official congratulation to the Prince Regent on a bill that had not passed—as if to repeat and insist upon our errors were to justify them.
[66]. The description of sports in the forest:
‘To see the sun to bed and to arise,
Like some hot amourist with glowing eyes,’ &c.