Next Boswell comes, for ’twas my lot
  To find at last one honest Scot
    With constitutional veracity;
  Yet garrulous he tells too much,
  On fancied failings prone to touch
    With sedulous loquacity.

  At length, Job’s patience it would try,
  Brewed on my lees comes “Thrale’s Entrie,"
    Straining to draw my picture;
  For she a common-place book kept,
  “Johnson at Streatluim dined and slept,”
    And who shall contradict her?

  Thrale lost midst fiddles and sopranos,
  With them plays fortes and pianos,
    Adagio and allegro. 
  I loved Thrale’s widow and Thrale’s wife
  But now, believe—­to write my life! 
    I’d rather trust my negro.

  I gave the public works of merit,
  Written with vigour, fraught with spirit,
    Applause crowned all my labours;
  But thy delusive pages speak
  My palsied powers, exhausted, weak,
    The scoff of friends and neighbours.

  They speak me insolent and rude,
  Light, trivial, puerile, and crude,
    The child of pride and vanity. 
  Poor Tuscan-like improvisation
  Is but of English sense castration,
    And infantine inanity.

  Such idle rhymes, like Sybil’s leaves,
  Kindly the scattering winds receive—­
    The gatherer proves a scorner. 
  But hold!  I see the coming day! 
  The spectre said—­and stalked away,
    To sleep in Poet’s Corner.

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WORSE AND WORSE.

Doctor Perne happening to call a clergyman a fool, who was not totally undeserving of the title, but who resented the indignity so highly, that he threatened to complain to his diocesan, the Bishop of Ely, “Do so,” says the Doctor, “and he will confirm you.”

J.G.B.

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UNPARALLELED RIDING.

In 1603, one John Lepton, of Reprich, Esq., in the county of York, undertook to ride five several times betwixt London and York in six days, to be taken in one week, between Monday morning and Saturday night:  he began his journey on Monday morning, and finished it on the Friday after, to the great admiration of all.—­Old History.

T. GILL.

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