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Rh Then fear not, if 'tis needful, to produce

Some term unknown, or obsolete in use,

(As Pitt has furnished us a word or two,

Which Lexicographers declined to do;)

So you indeed, with care,—(but be content

To take this license rarely)—may invent.

New words find credit in these latter days,

If neatly grafted on a Gallic phrase;

What Chaucer, Spenser did, we scarce refuse

To Dryden's or to Pope's maturer Muse.

If you can add a little, say why not,

As well as William Pitt, and Walter Scott?

Since they, by force of rhyme and force of lungs,

Enriched our Island's ill-united tongues;