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52 4.

Then you've Sotheby's Tour,—

No great things, to be sure,—

You could hardly begin with a less work;

For the pompous rascallion,

Who don't speak Italian

Nor French, must have scribbled by guess-work.

5.

No doubt he 's a rare man

Without knowing German

Translating his way up Parnassus,

And now still absurder

Fie meditates Murder

As you'll see in the trash he calls Tasso ' s.

6.

But you've others his betters

The real men of letters

Your Orators—Critics—and Wits—

And I'll bet that your Journal

(Pray is it diurnal?)

Will pay with your luckiest hits.

7.

You can make any loss up

With "Spence" and his gossip,

A work which must surely succeed;