Volume Ii Part 12 (1/2)
A long-ear'd beast, and woman of Endor, If your wife be a scold, that will mend her.[3]
With a long-ear'd beast, and medicine's use, Cooks make their fowl look tight and spruce.[4]
A long-ear'd beast, and holy fable, Strengthens the shoes of half the rabble.[5]
A long-ear'd beast, and Rhenish wine, Lies in the lap of ladies fine.[6]
A long-ear'd beast, and Flanders College, Is Dr. T----l, to my knowledge.[7]
A long-ear'd beast, and building knight, Censorious people do in spite.[8]
A long-ear'd beast, and bird of night, We sinners art too apt to slight.[9]
A long-ear'd beast, and shameful vermin, A judge will eat, though clad in ermine.[10]
A long-ear'd beast, and Irish cart, Can leave a mark, and give a smart.[11]
A long-ear'd beast, in mud to lie, No bird in air so swift can fly.[12]
A long-ear'd beast, and a sputt'ring old Whig, I wish he were in it, and dancing a jig.[13]
A long-ear'd beast, and liquor to write, Is a d.a.m.nable smell both morning and night.[14]
A long-ear'd beast, and the child of a sheep, At Whist they will make a desperate sweep.[15]
A beast long-ear'd, and till midnight you stay, Will cover a house much better than clay.[16]
A long-ear'd beast, and the drink you love best, You call him a sloven in earnest for jest.[17]
A long-ear'd beast, and the sixteenth letter, I'd not look at all unless I look'd better.[18]
A long-ear'd beast give me, and eggs unsound, Or else I will not ride one inch of ground.[19]
A long-ear'd beast, another name for jeer, To ladies' skins there nothing comes so near.[20]
A long-ear'd beast, and kind noise of a cat, Is useful in journeys, take notice of that.[21]
A long-ear'd beast, and what seasons your beef, On such an occasion the law gives relief.[22]
A long-ear'd beast, a thing that force must drive in, Bears up his house, that's of his own contriving.[23]
[Footnote 1: A shovel.]
[Footnote 2: Aspiring.]
[Footnote 3: A switch.]
[Footnote 4: A skewer.]
[Footnote 5: A sparable; a small nail in a shoe.]
[Footnote 6: A shock.]
[Footnote 7: A sloven.]
[Footnote 8: Asperse. (Pearce was an architect, who built the Parliament-House, Dublin.)]
[Footnote 9: A soul.]