...stranger that can pay ; Where Culvert's butt and Parson's black champagne Regale the drabs and bloods ol Drury Lane : There, in a lonely room, from bailiffs snug, The muse found Scroggin stretch'd beneath a rug ; A nightcap deck'd his brows instead of bay, A cap by night, a stocking...

...she liv'da twelvemonth more, — She had not died to-day. DESCRIPTION OF AN AUTHOR'S BED-CHAMBER.' Where the Red Lion staring o'er the way, Invites each...Parson's black champagne, Regale the drabs and bloods of Drury-lane ; * [First printed, in 1760, in "The Citizen of the World." See vol. ii. p. 127. On this...

...allusion to beer, how dry would have been his description of the region where authors most abound ! — " Where the ' Red Lion,' staring o'er the way, Invites...lonely room from bailiffs snug, The Muse found Scroggen stretch'd beneath a rug." To a poet of a later day than poor Goldy it was given to sing a royal visitation...

...only art her guilt to cover, To hide her shame from every eye, DESCRIPTION OF AN AUTHOR'S BEDCHAMBER. WHERE the Red Lion staring o'er the way, Invites each...Parson's black champagne, Regale the drabs and bloods of Drury-lane ; There in a lonely room, from bailiffs snug, The Muse found Scroggen stretch'd beneath...

...why, what a pot. Are they but senseless stones and blocks? DESCRIPTION OF AN AUTHOR'S BED-CHAMBER. WHERE the Red Lion, staring o'er the way, Invites...Parson's black champagne, Regale the drabs and bloods of Drury-lane : There, in a lonely room, from bailiffs snug, The Muse found Scroggen stretch'd beneath...

...way, Invites each passing stranger that can pay ; Where Galvert's butt and Parson's black champaigne Regale the drabs and bloods of Drury Lane : There,...a lonely room, from bailiffs snug, The muse found Scroggin stretch'd beneath a rug j SCROGGIN. 123 A nightcap deck'd his brows instead of bay, A cap...

...repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom — is, to die. DESCRIPTION OF AN AUTHOR'S BEDCHAMBER. WHERE the Red Lion staring o'er the way, Invites each passing stranger that can pay ; Where Cal vert's butt, and Parson's black champagne, Regale the drabs and bloods of Drury-lane ; There in...

...poem We have the poet himself, under the euphonious name of Scroggin : " Where the Red Lion peering o'er the way, Invites each passing stranger that can pay ; Where Calvert's butt and Parson's black champaigne Regale the drabs and bloods of Drury Lane : There, in a lonely room, from bailiffs snug,...

...to die. l See Vicar of Wakefield, o. xxiv. A DESCRIPTION OF AN AUTHOR'S BEDCHAMBER.' "WHERE the Eed Lion, staring o'er the way, Invites each passing stranger...Parson's black champagne, Regale the drabs and bloods of Drury-lane ; There, in a lonely room, from bailiffs snug, The Muse found Scroggen stretch'd beneath...

...thoughted care ;" and Goldsmith, sitting in his garret with a worsted stocking on his head : — " Where the Red Lion, staring o'er the way, Invites each passing stranger — that can pay," in spite of baliffs, writs, debts, duns, and milk-scores, the most horrible that even Hogarth imagined,...