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 BEING AN ALLUSION IN ENGLISH VERSE TO THE EPISTLE "AD PISONES, DE ARTE POETICÂ," AND INTENDED AS A SEQUEL TO "ENGLISH BARDS, AND SCOTCH REVIEWERS."

"Ergo fungar vice cotis, acutum

Reddere quæ ferrum valet, exsors ipsa secandi." . De Arte Poet., ll. 304 and 305.

"Rhymes are difficult things—they are stubborn things, Sir." Amelia, Vol. iii. Book and Chap. v.