"Through learned shoals of garbled Greek
We trace his favourite bias,
But when the malice comes to speak,
We recognise ----.
"What strutting _Bantam_, weak but proud,
E'er held his head so high as
This pigmy idol of the crowd,
The prancing pert ----.
"[Greek: Touto to biblion], he'll swear,
Is [Greek: plaeron taes sophias],
But men of sense and taste declare
'Tis little black ----.
"Oh! were this scribbler, for a time,
Struck dumb like _Zacharias_,
Who could regret the spiteful rhyme
Of little black ----.
"Small was his stature who in fight
O'erthrew the great _Darius_
But small in genius as in height
Is little black ----.
"Say, could'st thou gain the butt of sack
And salary that _Pye_ has,
Would it not cheer thy visage black,
Thou envious rogue ----.
"When next accus'd deny it not!
Do think of _Ananias_!
Remember how _he_ went to pot,
As thou may'st, friend ----.
"BARACHIAS."
I am, &c., your humble servant,
H.E.
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QUERIES.
BARRYANA.
The inquiries of "DRAMATICUS," and others in your number for Nov.
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