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Right Trusty and so forth we let you know	A
We are very ill used by you mortals below	A
For first I have often by chemists been told	B
Though I know nothing on't it is I that make gold	B
Which when you have got you so carefully hide it	C
That since I was born I hardly have spied it	C
Then it must be allow'd that whenever I shine	D
I forward the grass and I ripen the vine	D
To me the good fellows apply for relief	E
Without whom they could get neither claret nor beef	E
Yet their wine and their victuals those curmudgeon lubbards	F
Lock up from my sight in cellars and cupboards	F
That I have an ill eye they wickedly think	G
And taint all their meat and sour all their drink	G
But thirdly and lastly it must be allow'd	H
I alone can inspire the poetical crowd	H
This is gratefully own'd by each boy in the College	I
Whom if I inspire it is not to my knowledge	J
This every pretender in rhyme will admit	C
Without troubling his head about judgment or wit	C
These gentlemen use me with kindness and freedom	K
And as for their works when I please I may read 'em	K
They lie open on purpose on counters and stalls	F
And the titles I view when I shine on the walls	F
But a comrade of yours that traitor Delany	L
Whom I for your sake have used better than any	L
And of my mere motion and special good grace	F
Intended in time to succeed in your place	F
On Tuesday the tenth seditiously came	M
With a certain false trait'ress one Stella by name	M
To the Deanery house and on the North glass	F
Where for fear of the cold I never can pass	F
Then and there vi et armis with a certain utensil	A
Of value five shillings in English a pencil	A
Did maliciously falsely and trait'rously write	N
While Stella aforesaid stood by with a light	N
My sister hath lately deposed upon oath	O
That she stopt in her course to look at them both	O
That Stella was helping abetting and aiding	P
And still as he writ stood smiling and reading	P
That her eyes were as bright as myself at noon day	Q
But her graceful black locks were all mingled with grey	Q
And by the description I certainly know	A
'Tis the nymph that I courted some ten years ago	A
Whom when I with the best of my talents endued	R
On her promise of yielding she acted the prude	R
That some verses were writ with felonious intent	S
Direct to the North where I never once went	S
That the letters appear'd reversed through the pane	T
But in Stella's bright eyes were placed right again	U
Wherein she distinctly could read ev'ry line	D
And presently guessed the fancy was mine	D
She can swear to the Parson whom oft she has seen	V
At night between Cavan Street and College Green	V
Now you see why his verses so seldom are shown	W
The reason is plain they are none of his own	W
And observe while you live that no man is shy	X
To discover the goods he came honestly by	X
If I light on a thought he will certainly steal it	C
And when he has got it find ways to conceal it	C
Of all the fine things he keeps in the dark	Y
There's scarce one in ten but what has my mark	Y
And let them be seen by the world if he dare	Z
I'll make it appear they are all stolen ware	Z
But as for the poem he writ on your sash	A2
I think I have now got him under my lash	A2
My sister transcribed it last night to his sorrow	A
And the public shall see't if I live till to morrow	A
Thro' the zodiac around it shall quickly be spread	B2
In all parts of the globe where your language is read	B2
He knows very well I ne'er gave a refusal	A
When he ask'd for my aid in the forms that are usual	A
But the secret is this I did lately intend	C2
To write a few verses on you as my friend	C2
I studied a fortnight before I could find	D2
As I rode in my chariot a thought to my mind	D2
And resolved the next winter for that is my time	E2
When the days are at shortest to get it in rhyme	E2
Till then it was lock'd in my box at Parnassus	F
When that subtle companion in hopes to surpass us	F
Conveys out my paper of hints by a trick	F2
For I think in my conscience he deals with old Nick	F2
And from my own stock provided with topics	F
He gets to a window beyond both the tropics	F
There out of my sight just against the north zone	W
Writes down my conceits and then calls them his own	W
And you like a cully the bubble can swallow	A
Now who but Delany that writes like Apollo	A
High treason by statute yet here you object	G2
He only stole hints but the verse is correct	G2
Though the thought be Apollo's 'tis finely express'd	H2
So a thief steals my horse and has him well dress'd	H2
Now whereas the said criminal seems past repentance	F
We Phoebus think fit to proceed to his sentence	F
Since Delany hath dared like Prometheus his sire	I2
To climb to our region and thence to steal fire	I2
We order a vulture in shape of the Spleen	V
To prey on his liver but not to be seen	V
And we order our subjects of every degree	L
To believe all his verses were written by me	L
And under the pain of our highest displeasure	I2
To call nothing his but the rhyme and the measure	I2
And lastly for Stella just out of her prime	E2
I'm too much revenged already by Time	E2
In return of her scorn I sent her diseases	F
But will now be her friend whenever she pleases	F
And the gifts I bestow'd her will find her a lover	I2
Though she lives till she's grey as a badger all over	I2

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