Horace, Lib. I, Epist. Ix, Imitated. To The Right Honourable Mr. Harley Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDEFFGG BAHIJJ KKJJLLMNOO| Dear Dick how e'er it comes into his head | A |
| Believes as firmly as he does his creed | B |
| That you and I sir are extremely great | C |
| Though I plain Mat you minister of state | C |
| One word from me without all doubt he says | D |
| Would fix his fortune in some little place | E |
| Thus better than myself it seems he knows | F |
| How far my interest with my patron goes | F |
| And answering all objections I can make | G |
| Still plunges deeper in his dear mistake | G |
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| From this wild fancy sir there may proceed | B |
| One wilder yet which I foresee and dread | A |
| That I in fact a real interest have | H |
| Which to my own advantage I would save | I |
| And with the usual courtier's trick intend | J |
| To serve myself forgetful of my friend | J |
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| To shun this censure I all shame lay by | K |
| And make my reason with his will comply | K |
| Hoping for my excuse 'twill be confest | J |
| That of two evils I have chose the least | J |
| So sir with this epistolary scroll | L |
| Receive the partner of my inmost soul | L |
| Him you will find in letters and in laws | M |
| Not unexpert firm to his country's cause | N |
| Warm in the glorious interest you pursue | O |
| And in one word a good man and a true | O |
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