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To hook the reader, you, / John Murray, / Have publish'd "Anjou's Margaret," / Which won't be sold off in a hurry / (At least, it has not been as yet);
And then, still further to bewilder 'em, / Without remorse, you set up "Ilderim; " / So mind you don't get into debt, / Because, as how, if you should fail, / These books would be but baddish bail.
And mind you do not let escape / These rhymes to Morning Post or Parry, / Which would be very treacherous - very, / And get me into such a scrape!
For, firstly, / I should have to sally, / All in my little boat, against a Galley;
And, should I chance to slay the Assyrian wight, / Have next to combat with the female knight.
March 25, 1817.