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1 See how the happy soul himself admires ! 



A hazy vapour thro' his head expires ; 



His curls ambrosial, hop and poppy shade, 



Fit emblems of his talent and his trade. 



Slow yet not cautious ; cunning yet not wise^ 



We hate him first, then pity, then despise. 

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Puft with the Pride that loves her name in print, 



And knock-kneed Vanity with inward squint. 



Laborious, heavy, slow to catch a cause, 



Bills at long sight upon his wits he draws, 



And with a solemn smartness in his mien. 



Lights up his eyes and offers to look keen. 



But oh ! how dullness fell on all his face, '' \ 



When he saw Melville rescued from disgrace J ; 



Not more agape the stupid audience stared, 



When Kemble spoke of Aitches and a Baird. ' 



Cold from his cheek the crimson courage fled ; 



With jaw ajar, he looked as he were dead, 



As from the anatomist he just had run, , 



Or was bound 'prentice to a skeleton. 



Then, seeing thro' the matter in a minute, 



Wished to high Heav'n he ne'er had meddled in it. 



£ough as his porter, bitter as his barm. 



He sacrificed his fame to Melville's harm. 



And gave more deep disgust, than if his vat 



Had curst our vision wdth a swimming rat. 



The same satirist thus comments on the fact, that before proceeding 

 to the impeachment in Westminster Hall, Melville's accusers had suc- 

 ceeded in having him pronounced guilty of the charges, and unworthy 

 of being on the roll of the Privy Council : 



"Justice, turned scholar, changed her vulgar plan, 

 And, just like Hebrew, from the end began ; 

 First found the culprit guilty, tried him Tiext, * 



And from Amen preached backwards to the text. 

 So crabs advance by retrograde degrees, 

 And salmon drift, tail foremost, to the seas ! 

 To vex the Scotchman answered every end : 

 Unhappy in his servant and his friend." 



"To vex the Scotchman answered every end:" this line glances at 

 a narrow and unworthy anti-Scottish prejudice which had been preva- 

 lent, more or less in England, ever since the days of the Scottish 

 favourite, Lord Bute. A caricature of the day, by Sayer, represents 

 a figui'e, made up of barrels and tubs, aiming a flail at a large thistle. 



