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Pardon me, Madam; myself and my verses are utterly unworthy to occupy the place of such superlative predecessors.

Nay, nay; you will read them yourself; no one else would give them their proper expression.

Excuse me: excuse me.

And excuse me, also, for presuming to offer my husky voice for that service which Mr. Clermont too modestly declines.

How delightfully obliging! but I fear it will exhaust you too much.

Not a bit, not a bit! to it, dear Orator, and give us the sonnet, too.