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Rh “There are ome of ye here, who, like me, I conjecture “Have been lull’d into leep by a good curtain lecture. “But that’s a mere trifle; you’ll ne’er come to blows, “It you’ll only avoid that dull enemy, proe. “Adopt, then, my plan, and the very next time, “That in words you fall out, let them fall into rhime; “Thus your harpet diputes will conclude very oon, “And from jangling to jingling you’ll chime into tune, “If my wife were to call me a drunken old ot “I hou’d merely jut ak her, what Butler is not? “And bid her take care that he don’t go to pot. “So our quabbles continue a very hort eaon, “If he yields to my rhime—I allow he has reaon.” Independent of this I conceive rhime has weight In the higher employments of church and of tate, And would in my mind uch advantages draw, ’Tis a pity that rhime is not anctioned by law; “For ’twould really be erving us all to impoe “A capital fine on the man who poke proe.” Mark the pleader who clacks, in his client’s behalf, His technical tuff for three hours and a half; Or the fellow who tells you a long tupid tory, And over and over the ame lays before ye; Or the member who raves till the whole houe are doing What d’ye ay of uch men? Why, you ey they are proing. So, of coure, then, if proe is o tedious a crime, It of conequence follows, there’s a virtue in rhime. The bet piece of proe that I’ve heard a long while, Is what gallant Nelon has ent from. And had he but told us the story in rhime, What a thing ’twou’d be; but, perhaps, he’d no time. So, I’ll do it myelf—Oh! ’tis glorious news! Nine ail of the line! Jut a hip for each Mue. As I live, there’s an end of the French and their navy— Sir John Warren has ent the Bret fleet to Old Davy. ’Tis in the Gazette, and that, every one knows, Is ure to be truth, tho’ ’tis written in proe.