Salmon begat Booz-- Booz begat Obed-- Obed begat Jesse, so as Jesse begat David.
And I am, Sir, Your humble Servant, GEO. GORDON.
_Testimony in Favour of_ MAJOR JOHN SCOTT'_s Poetical Talents._
_In an Extract from a private Letter to a Great Personage._
"I trust, therefore, that the rough diamonds will meet with your favourable construction. They will be delivered by my excellent friend, Major John Scott, who, in obedience to my orders, has taken a seat in Parliament, and published sundry tracts on my integrity. I can venture to recommend him as an impenetrable arguer, no man's propositions flowing in a more deleterious stream; no man's expressions so little hanging on the thread of opinion.--He has it in command to compose the best and most magnificent Ode on your Majesty's birthday.
A FULL AND TRUE ACCOUNT OF THE REV. THOMAS WARTON'S ASCENSION FROM CHRIST-CHURCH MEADOW, OXFORD,
(In the Balloon of James Sadler, Pastry-Cook to the said University) on Friday the 20th of May, 1785, for the purpose of composing a sublime ODE in honour of his Majesty's Birth-day; attested before JOHN WEYLAND, Esq. one of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the County of Oxford.[1]