Thou guide by which the nobler arts excel, Thou nurse of every virtue-fare thee well. Farewell! and oh! where'er thy voice be tried, On Tornea's clifts or Pambamarca's side, Whether where equinoctial fervours glow 420 430 TO AN IMPERTINENT MUSICIAN.— EXTEMPORE,1 OUR herald hath proclaim'd this saying: THE CLOWN'S REPLY.? JOHN TROTT was desired by two witty peers To tell them the reason why asses had ears! From The miscellaneous works, 1801. Life, p. 5. Oliver, while a pupil at Elphin, was requested to dance a hornpipe. The musician, a youth also, ventured to compare him to Æsop; but was promptly met by retaliation! 2 From the Poems and plays, Dublin, Price etc., 1777.-The verses are dated at Edinburgh, 1753. No authority is cited. |