Impromptus by Thomas Gray — Read

Impromptu by Gray on Going Out of Raby Castle, After Dining with Harry Vane.

Here lives Harry Vane, / Very good claret and fine champaign.

Epigrams on Dr. Keene, Bishop of Chester.

The Bishop of Chester, / Though wiser than Nestor / And fairer than Esther, / If you scratch him will fester.

Here lies Edmund Keene Lord Bishop of Chester, / He eat a fat goose, and could not digest her.

Here lies Mrs. Keene the she Bishop of Chester, / She had a bad face which did sadly molest her.

Parody on an Epitaph.

Now clean, now hideous, mellow now, now gruff, / She swept, she hissed, she ripened and grew rough, / At Brougham, Pendragon, Appleby and Brough.

A Couplet on Dining.

When you rise from your dinner as light as before, / 'Tis a sign you have eat just enough and no more.

Couplet About Birds.

There pipes the woodlark, and the song-thrush there / Scatters his loose notes in the waste of air.