[Richardson defines BOOM, v., applied as _bumble_ by Chaucer, and
_bump_ by Dryden, to the noise of the bittern, and quotes from Cotton's
_Night's Quatrains_,--
"Philomel chants it whilst it bleeds,
The bittern _booms_ it in the reeds," &c.]
"_A Letter to a Member of Parliament._"--Who was the author of _A Letter to
a Member of Parliament_, occasioned by _A Letter to a Convocation Man_: W.
Rogers, London, 1697?