“ PANDORA'S BOX.” 299 
“ 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! 
“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!” i 
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, 
