On the Westminster Boys damning “The Westminster Boy,” a Farce, by Edward Topham, Esq. Author of “The Fool,” and several other Things, produced for the Benefit of Mrs. Wells.
Shrink from satire, O shame! what, shall Westminster school
Stand in awe of that pen which gave birth to “The Fool?”
Is’t liberal, rude boys, thus by anticipation,
Untry’d, to consign any piece to damnation?
Oh! had BUSBY been living, for damning of farces,
I’ll be damn’d if he wou’d not have tickl’d your –– .