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Thy grandsire's words favour'd of thrifty leekes, Or manly garlicke; but thy furnace reekes Hot steams of wine; and can a-loose descrie The drunken draughts of sweet autumnitie. The second is a short satire on erecting stately monuments to worthless men. The following advice is nobly moral, the subsequent sarcasm just and well expressed.
"In the library!" answered the old man; "nobody has sat there this many a day, and the room smokes, for the daws have built in the chimney this spring, and there were no young men about the Hall to pull them down." "Our ain reekes better than other folk's fire," said Andrew. "His honour likes the library; he's nane o' your Papishers, that delight in blinded ignorance, Mr. Syddall."
"In the library!" answered the old man; "nobody has sat there this many a day, and the room smokes, for the daws have built in the chimney this spring, and there were no young men about the Hall to pull them down." "Our ain reekes better than other folk's fire," said Andrew. "His honour likes the library; he's nane o' your Papishers, that delight in blinded ignorance, Mr. Syddall."
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