e frame I _draw_
The pin that propp'd it: with a _roar_."

"Their eggs upon a heap of _straw_,
Then loitering hindermost, the _more_."

"When it was bruited round the _court_
How Reynard was by greybeard _brought_."

"Grimalkin there one eye had _lost_,
His scalp from Bruin's head been _forced_."

"With any thing, in short, to _fasten_
Guilt on him--burglary--e'en _arson_!"

"Than at the words the Queen, _alarm'd_,
Nigh swoon'd before her fears were _calm'd_."

"The son dishonour'd: not a _straw_
It weigh'd with him, to think how _sore_."

"There dwelt my father; him they _sought_,
And plotted, whilst they soak'd his _port_."

"To practise after my pa_pa_--
Through life my light and exem_plar_!"

"Another life to lead he's _sworn_:
And will to-morrow at the _dawn_."

"Then, turning to the Queen, _besought_
Her majesty in merry _sport_."

"Quoth Reynard, as with sudden _thought_
Before the portal stopping _short_."

"We have so many a sally-_port_,
And _cul-de-sac_, we can't be _caught_."

"Send far and near the heralds _forth_,
By blast of trump to tell my _wrath_."

"At Rome, I on our banker _draw_,
And when that's gone, I send for _more_."

"That none dared venture! This he _saw_
And felt his pluck return once _more_."

"But I've no _claws_
And therefore am not fit for _wars_."

"By envy eaten up, they _saw_
Me prosper; looking all _before_."

"And ever, when they walk'd _abroad_
Each arm'd with hunting-whip and _cord_."

If any of our readers doubt the authenticity of some of the rhymes above
set down, we are willing that they should buy the book, as we have done,
and ascertain for themselves.

Merciful as we are by nature, and growing more and more so every day by
age, we yet feel that the enormities we have now denounced are beyond
endurance. Such poetry as this, neither gods, men, nor booksellers
should tolerate; and with the highest respect for the very excellent
publishers who have assisted in the birth of this production, and to
whom we owe so many useful and admirable contributions to knowledge and
literature, we do venture humbly to submit, that their peculiar duty
makes them somewhat more responsible for what is thus brought forth,
than ordinary obstetrical practitioners can be for what they may help
into the world. There is no reason that such a bantling should be born
at all, and at l