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 To Some Critics.

Wretches! Speak wretched of me, but oblige me by truthfully adding:

Earnest is he. For the rest, wretches, speak wretched of me.

An die Herren H. J. K.

Lumpen! redet lumpig von mir, doch saget: es war ihm

Ernst! und redet sodann, Lumpen, ihr lumpig von mir.