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Pray observe the stern Reviewer! / See with what a piercing look / He impales, as with a skewer, / This unlucky little book! / Note his gestures of impatience, / As he contemplates, perplex'd, / The amazing illustrations / Which adorn the text!
Hear him mutter, as his swivel- / Eye converges on the verse, / "Any man who writes such drivel / Must be capable of worse. / Let it be my painful mission, / As a literary man, / To suppress the whole edition, / If a critic can.