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Dear Murray, - You ask for a "Volume of Nonsense," / Have all of your authors exhausted their store? / I thought you had published a good deal not long since. / And doubtless the Squadron are ready with more.
But on looking again, I perceive that the Species / Of "Nonsense" you want must be purely "facetious; " / And, as that is the case, you had best put to press / Mr. Sotheby's tragedies now in M. S., / Some Syrian Sally / From common-place Gally, / Or, if you prefer the bookmaking of women, / Take a spick and span "Sketch" of your feminine He-Man.
Sept. 28, 1820. First published, Letters, 1900, v. 83.