Lines attributed to Tom Brown

In a book entitled *Liber Facetiarum, being a Collection of curious and interesting Anecdotes*, published at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, by D. Akenhead & Sons, 1809, the passage attributed to Tom Brown by your correspondent "J.T." is given to Zacharias Boyd. The only reference given as authority for the account is the initials H.B. "Zacharias Boyd, whose bust is to be seen over the entrance to the Royal College in Glasgow, while Professor in that university, translated the Old and New Testament into Scotch Metre; and, from a laudable zeal to disseminate religious knowledge among the lower classes of…