" PANDORA'S BOX." 229 



" A comfort which they can't forsake, 

 What is it some would rather take, 

 Than good roast beef, or rich plum cake ? 

 A pinch, of snuff! 



u Should two old gossips chance to sit, 

 And sip their slop, and talk of it, 

 What gives a sharpness to their wit ? 

 A pinch of snuff! 



" What introduces Whig or Tory, 

 And reconciles them in their story, 

 When each is boasting in his glory ? 

 A pinch of snuff! 



" What warms without a conflagration 

 Excites without intoxication, 

 And rouses without irritation? 



A pinch of snuff! 



" When friendship fades, and fortune's spent, 

 And hope seems gone the way they went, 

 One cheering ray of joy is sent 

 A pinch of snuff! 



" Then let us sing in praise of snuff! 

 And call it not such ' horrid stuff,' 

 At which some frown, and others puff, 

 And seem to flinch. 



" But when a friend presents a box, 

 Avoid the scruples and the shocks 

 Of him who laughs and he who mocks, 

 And take a pinch ! " 



From "Pandora's Box" from which we have already 

 quoted, we extract the following in which the use of snuff is 

 deprecated by the author : 



-=" now, 'tis by every sort 

 And sex adored, from Billingsgate to court. 

 But ask a dame ' how oysters sell ? ' if nice, 

 She begs a pinch before she sets a price. 

 Go thence to 'Change, inquire the price of Stocks ; 

 Before they ope their lips they open first the box. 

 Next pay a visit to the Temple, where 

 The lawyers live, who gold to Heaven prefer; 

 You'll find them stupify'd to that degree, 



