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A Housemaid once was sweeping out a room / With a worn-out and very dirty Broom; / "Now, hang you for a Broom! " -- said she in wrath -- / "For, with the filth and shreds you leave behind / Where'er you go, you 're making, to my mind, / More dirt than you clean up upon your path."
The botchers who, devoid of skill, pretend / The faults of others' writings to amend, / But leave them ten times fuller than before; / Let not these blockheads fear that I shall score / Their paltry backs -- I leave their blundering trade / To the apt censure of the serving-maid.