[14] See the utility of this knife in a late Sessions-paper.
By this most precious relick, here I pledge
Myself to save him from the halter's edge:
And not myself alone, but ev'ry friend
Shall all his interest and assistance lend.
Quaint B----, beholding the rude mob with scorn,
Shall tell how Irish bards are gentle born;
Next I, to captivate the learned bench,
Will strait affirm that NYKY writes good French;[15]
Thy timid nature JOHNSON shall maintain,[16]
In words no dictionary can explain.
Goldsmith, good-natur'd man, shall next defend,
His foster-brother,[17] countryman, and friend:
Shall prove the humbler passions, now and then,
Are incidental to us little men;