Now in the desk, with solemn air, In awkward tones, nor said, nor sung, And culls his texts, and tills his farm, Thus glib-tongued Merc'ry in his hand END OF PART FIRST. THE PROGRESS OF DULNESS. PART II. OR THE LIFE AND CHARACTER OF DICK HAIRBRAIN.* "TWAS in a town remote, the place * First printed at New-Haven, January 1773. He thought the stripling's parts were quick, Bless'd the pert dunce, and praised his looks, More oaths than words Dick learn'd to speak And studied knavery more than Greek; Three years at school, as usual, spent, Then all equipp'd to college went, And pleased in prospect, thus bestow'd His meditations, as he rode. "All hail, unvex'd with care and strife, The bliss of academic life; Where kind repose protracts the span, Where annual troops of bucks come down, And each choice spirit finds his mate. "Far from those walls, from pleasure's eye, Let care and grief and labour fly, |