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If A veteran author had wished to engage	A
Our assistance to day for a speech from the stage	A
We scarce should have granted so bold a request	B
But this author of ours as the bravest and best	B
Deserves an indulgence denied to the rest	B
For the courage and vigor the scorn and the hate	C
With which he encounters the pests of the State	C
A thoroughbred seaman intrepid and warm	D
Steering outright in the face of the storm	D
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But now for the gentle reproaches he bore	E
On the part of his friends for refraining before	E
To embrace the profession embarking for life	F
In theatrical storms and poetical strife	F
	-
He begs us to state that for reasons of weight	C
He has lingered so long and determined so late	C
For he deemed the achievements of comedy hard	G
The boldest attempt of a desperate bard	G
The Muse he perceived was capricious and coy	H
Though many were courting her few could enjoy	H
And he saw without reason from season to season	I
Your humor would shift and turn poets adrift	J
Requiting old friends with unkindness and treason	I
Discarded in scorn as exhausted and worn	K
	-
Seeing Magnes's fate who was reckoned of late	C
For the conduct of comedy captain and head	L
That so oft on the stage in the flower of his age	A
Had defeated the Chorus his rivals had led	L
With his sounds of all sort that were uttered in sport	M
With whims and vagaries unheard of before	E
With feathers and wings and a thousand gay things	N
That in frolicsome fancies his Choruses wore	E
When his humor was spent did your temper relent	O
To requite the delight that he gave you before	E
We beheld him displaced and expelled and disgraced	P
When his hair and his wit were grown aged and hoar	E
	-
Then he saw for a sample the dismal example	Q
Of noble Cratinus so splendid and ample	Q
Full of spirit and blood and enlarged like a flood	R
Whose copious current tore down with its torrent	S
Oaks ashes and yew with the ground where they grew	T
And his rivals to boot wrenched up by the root	U
And his personal foes who presumed to oppose	V
All drowned and abolished dispersed and demolished	W
And drifted headlong with a deluge of song	X
	-
And his airs and his tunes and his songs and lampoons	V
Were recited and sung by the old and the young	Y
At our feasts and carousals what poet but he	Z
And 'The fair Amphibribe' and 'The Sycophant Tree '	-
'Masters and masons and builders of verse '	-
Those were the tunes that all tongues could rehearse	V
But since in decay you have cast him away	A2
Stript of his stops and his musical strings	V
Battered and shattered a broken old instrument	S
Shoved out of sight among rubbishy things	V
His garlands are faded and what he deems worst	B2
His tongue and his palate are parching with thirst	B2
	-
And now you may meet him alone in the street	C2
Wearied and worn tattered and torn	K
All decayed and forlorn in his person and dress	V
Whom his former success should exempt from distress	V
With subsistence at large at the general charge	D2
And a seat with the great at the table of State	C
There to feast every day and preside at the play	A2
In splendid apparel triumphant and gay	A2
	-
Seeing Crates the next always teased and perplexed	E2
With your tyrannous temper tormented and vexed	E2
That with taste and good sense without waste or expense	V
From his snug little hoard provided your board	F2
With a delicate treat economic and neat	C2
Thus hitting or missing with crowns or with hissing	G2
Year after year he pursued his career	H2
For better or worse till he finished his course	V
	-
These precedents held him in long hesitation	I
He replied to his friends with a just observation	I
'That a seaman in regular order is bred	L
To the oar to the helm and to look out ahead	L
With diligent practice has fixed in his mind	I2
The signs of the weather and changes of wind	I2
And when every point of the service is known	J2
Undertakes the command of a ship of his own '	-
	-
For reasons like these	V
If your judgment agrees	V
That he did not embark	K2
Like an ignorant spark	K2
Or a troublesome lout	L2
To puzzle and bother and blunder about	L2
Give him a shout	L2
At his first setting out	L2
And all pull away	A2
With a hearty huzza	V
For success to the play	A2
Send him away	A2
Smiling and gay	A2
Shining and florid	R
With his bald forehead	L

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