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Rh 10.

Who sacrifices hours of rest,

To scan precisely metres Attic;

Or agitates his anxious breast,

In solving problems mathematic:

11.

Who reads false quantities in Seale,

Or puzzles o'er the deep triangle;

Depriv'd of many a wholesome meal;

In barbarous Latin doom'd to wrangle:

12.

Renouncing every pleasing page,

From authors of historic use;

Preferring to the letter'd sage,

The square of the hypothenuse.