That gives to men a glim

Of what they know is just, I'm but

A farthing dip to him,"

Twas thro' his indignation he did make a vulgar slip

And coined so rude a simile,—in re the farthing dip;

"I find my brains have broken loose, my occiputs to let,

But ha! I've got a last resource, that none may wot of yet,

I'll take my diamond ring to-night, and use it round his panes,

And in a mask I'll burgle him, and steal his liberal brains!"

He quaffed the glorious fizz again, a swill both deep and strong