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Our poet has never as yet	A
Esteemed it proper or fit	B
To detain you with a long	C
Encomiastic song	C
On his own superior wit	B
But being abused and accused	D
And attacked of late	E
As a foe of the State	E
He makes an appeal in his proper defense	F
To your voluble humor and temper and sense	F
With the following plea	G
Namely that he	G
Never attempted or ever meant	H
To scandalize	I
In any wise	I
Your mighty imperial government	J
Moreover he says	K
That in various ways	L
He presumes to have merited honor and praise	L
Exhorting you still to stick to your rights	M
And no more to be fooled with rhetorical flights	M
Such as of late each envoy tries	I
On the behalf of your allies	I
That come to plead their cause before ye	G
With fulsome phrase and a foolish story	G
Of 'violet crowns' and 'Athenian glory '	N
With 'sumptuous Athens' at every word	O
'Sumptuous Athens' is always heard	O
'Sumptuous' ever a suitable phrase	L
For a dish of meat or a beast at graze	L
He therefore affirms	P
In confident terms	P
That his active courage and earnest zeal	Q
Have usefully served your common weal	Q
He has openly shown	R
The style and tone	R
Of your democracy ruling abroad	S
He has placed its practices on record	T
The tyrannical arts the knavish tricks	U
That poison all your politics	U
Therefore shall we see this year	V
The allies with tribute arriving here	W
Eager and anxious all to behold	X
Their steady protector the bard so bold	X
The bard they say that has dared to speak	Y
To attack the strong to defend the weak	Y
His fame in foreign climes is heard	O
And a singular instance lately occurred	O
It occurred in the case of the Persian king	Z
Sifting and cross examining	Z
The Spartan envoys He demanded	A2
Which of the rival States commanded	A2
The Grecian seas He asked them next	B2
Wishing to see them more perplexed	B2
Which of the two contending powers	C2
Was chiefly abused by this bard of ours	C2
For he said 'Such a bold so profound an adviser	D2
By dint of abuse would render them wiser	D2
More active and able and briefly that they	E2
Must finally prosper and carry the day '	N
Now mark the Lacedaemonian guile	Q
Demanding an insignificant isle	Q
'AEgina ' they say 'for a pledge of peace	F2
As a means to make all jealousy cease '	N
Meanwhile their privy design and plan	G2
Is solely to gain this marvelous man	G2
Knowing his influence on your fate	E
By obtaining a hold on his estate	E
Situate in the isle aforesaid	H2
Therefore there needs to be no more said	H2
You know their intention and know that you know it	B
You'll keep to your island and stick to the poet	I2
And he for his part	J2
Will practice his art	J2
With a patriot heart	J2
With the honest views	K2
That he now pursues	K2
And fair buffoonery and abuse	L2
Not rashly bespattering or basely beflattering	Z
Not pimping or puffing or acting the ruffian	G2
Not sneaking or fawning	Z
But openly scorning	Z
All menace and warning	Z
All bribes and suborning	Z
He will do his endeavor on your behalf	M2
He will teach you to think he will teach you to laugh	M2
So Cleon again and again may try	N2
I value him not nor fear him I	N2
His rage and rhetoric I defy	N2
His impudence his politics	U
His dirty designs his rascally tricks	U
No stain of abuse on me shall fix	U
Justice and right in his despite	O2
Shall aid and attend me and do me right	O2
With these to friend I ne'er will bend	P2
Nor descend	P2
To a humble tone	G2
Like his own	G2
As a sneaking loon	G2
A knavish slavish poor poltroon	G2

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