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Shut these odious books up, brother; / They have made you quite another / Thing from what you used to be: / Once you liked to play with me, / Now you leave me all alone, / And are so conceited grown / With your Latin, you'll scarce look / Upon any English book.
We had used on winter eves / To con over Shakespeare's leaves, / Or on Milton's harder sense / Exercise our diligence, / And you would explain with ease / The obscurer passages; / Find me out the prettiest places, / The poetic turns and graces, / Which, alas! now you are gone, / I must puzzle out alone;