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The figure that thou here seest... Tut! / Was it for gentle Shakespeare put? / B. JONSON. (_Adapted._)
I -- "Next Poet? " No, my hearties, / I nor am nor fain would be! / Choose your chiefs and pick your parties, / Not one soul revolt to me! / I, forsooth, sow song-sedition? / I, a schism in verse provoke? / I, blown up by bard's ambition, / Burst -- your bubble-king? You joke.