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These are rhymes of dubious authenticity. -Lang.
Rash mortal, and slanderous poet, thy name / Shall no longer appear in the records of Fame; / Dost not know that old Mansfield, who writes like the Bible, / Says, the more 'tis a truth, sir, the more 'tis a libel!