POETRY. [503 
My chambers ! equipt complete, — 
Made Friends, hir’d Books, and gave to eat; 
If haply to regale my friends on, 
My Mother sent a haunch of Ven’son, 
I most respegtfully intreated 
The choicest Company to eat it, 
Towit, old Buzzarv, Hawk, andCrow, 
Item, Tom THornsaAck, SHark, and Co. 
Attorneys all as keen and staunch 
As e’er devour’d a Client’s haunch ; 
Nor did I not their Clerks invite 
To taste said ven’son hash’d at night, 
For well I knew that hopefgl Fry 
My rising merit would descry, - 
The same litigious course pursue, 
And when to fish of prey they grew, 
By love of food and contest led, 
Would haunt the spot where once they fed; 
Thus having with due circumspection 
Form’d my professional connexian, 
My desk with precedents I[ strew’d, | 
Turn’d critic, danc’d, or penn’d an ode, 
Studied the Tox, became a free 
And easy man of Gallantry : 
‘But if while capering at my Glass, 
Or toying with some fav’rite Lass, 
I heard the aforesaid Hawk a coming, 
Or Buzzarp on the stair-case humming, 
At once the fair angelic maid 
Into my Coal-hole 1 convey’d, 
At once with serious look profound, 
Mine eyes commercing with the ground, 
I seem’d like one estrang’d to sleep, 
«© And fix’d in cogitation deep,’’ 
Sat motionless, and in my hand I 
Held my Doé?rina Placitandi, 
And though I never read a page in’t, 
Thanks to that shrewd well.judzing Agent, 
My Sister’s husband, Mr. Suark, 
Soon got six Pupils and a Clerk, 
Five Pupile were my stint, the other 
I took to compliment his Mother ; 
All round me came with ready money 
Like Hybla bees surcharg’d with honey, 
Which, as they press’d it so genteelly, 
And begg’d me to accept so freely, 
Seem’d all so fond of Spec1aL PLEADING, 
And all so certain of succeeding, 
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