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Rh 5.

To me, divine Apollo, grant—O!

Hermilda's first and second canto,

I'm fitting up a new portmanteau;

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And thus to furnish decent lining,

My own and others' bays I'm twining,—

So, gentle Thurlow, throw me thine in. June 2, 1813. [First published, Letters and Journals, 1830, i. 396.]

TO LORD THURLOW.

1.

"I lay my branch of laurel down."

lay thy branch of laurel down!"

Why, what thou'st stole is not enow;

And, were it lawfully thine own,

Does Rogers want it most, or thou?

Keep to thyself thy withered bough,

Or send it back to Doctor Donne: