The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.
Turn, gentle Hermit of the Dale, And guide my lonely way To where yon taper cheers the vale With hospitable ray.
Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow, Or by the lazy Scheld or wandering Po.
Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog And in that town a dog was found, As many dogs there be, Both mongrel, puppy, whelp, and hound, And curs of low degree.
As for disappointing them I should not so much mind; but I can't abide to disappoint myself.