On a Report of a Minister’s Death

Last Monday all the Papers said

That Mr. —— was dead;

Why, then, what said the City?

The tenth part sadly shook their head,

And shaking sigh'd and sighing said,

'Pity, indeed, 'tis pity!'





But when the said report was found

A rumour wholly without ground,

Why, then, what said the city?

The other nine parts shook their head,

Repeating what the tenth had said,

'Pity, indeed, 'tis pity!'