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Speed, flippant rhymes, throughout the land; / Disperse yourselves with patient zeal! / Go, perch upon the critic's hand, / Just after he has had a meal. / But should he still unfriendly be, / Unperch and hasten back to me.
O gentle maid, O happy boy, / This copy of my book is done; / But don't forget that I enjoy / A royalty on ev'ry one; / Just think how wealthy I should be, / If you would purchase two or three!
_MORAL_
No moral that I ever took / Seemed quite so evident before. / If purchasing an author's book / Will keep the wolf from his back-door, / It is our very obvious mission / To buy up the entire edition.