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Of all the twice ten thousand bards / That ever penned a canto, / Whom Pudding or whom Praise rewards / For lining a portmanteau; / Of all the poets ever known, / From Grub-street to Fop's Alley, / The Muse may boast - the World must own / There's none like pretty Gally!
He writes as well as any Miss, / Has published many a poem; / The shame is yours, the gain is his, / In case you should not know 'em: / He has ten thousand pounds a year - / I do not mean to vally - / His songs at sixpence would be dear, / So give them gratis, Gaily!