first edition of his "English Bards and Scotch Reviewers"

"Too much in turtle Bristol's sons delight,
Too much oer bowls of rack prolong the night."

These lines will not be found in the modern editions; but the
following are substituted:

"Four turtle feeder's verse must needs he flat,
Though Bristol bloat him with the verdant fat."

Lord Macaulay says of the collations with which the sugar-refiners
of Bristol regaled their visitors: "The repast was dressed in the
furnace, And was accompanied by a rich brewage made of the best
Spanish wine, and celebrated over the whole kingdom as Bristol milk"
("Hist. of England," vol. i., p. 335)--B.]

where comes in another poor woman, who, hearing that Deb. was here, did
come running hither, and with her eyes so lull of tears, and heart so full
of joy, that she could not speak when she come in, that it made me weep
too: I protest that I was not able to speak to her, which I would have
done, to have diverted her tears. His wife a good woman, and so sober and
substantiall as I was never more pleased anywhere. Servant-maid, 2s. So
thence took leave, and he with us through the city, where in walking I
find the city pay him great respect, and he the like to the meanest, which
pleased me mightily. He shewed us the place where the merchants meet
here, and a fine Cross yet standing, like Cheapside. And so to the
Horseshoe, where paid the reckoning, 2s. 6d. We back, and by moonshine to
the Bath again, about ten-o'clock: bad way; and giving the coachman 1s.,
went all of us to bed.