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the next Place Sactuff led us to see his Men at Work, (whose Manner of working I have already describ'd,) and complied with a Request of mine, in suffering me to hammer out a Poem. In order to this I wrote the Letters of the English Alphabet upon Pieces of Paper, as above, and then proceeded to down right Hammering: After some little Labour I collected the following Poem, which I here set down with the Alteration of but two Words since it left the Moon. When I had made the Poem I hammered for a Title, and could find no other than that which is perfixed to it. The making of the Poem had like to prove the Cause of my Confinement, since it made Sactuff conceive too well of my Ability, to become serviceable to him.