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58 6.

And Heaven forbid I should conclude,

Without "the Board of Longitude,"

Although this narrow paper would,

My Murray. Venice, April 11, 1818. [First published, Letters and Journals, 1830, ii. 171.]

BALLAD.

TO THE TUNE OF "SALLEY IN OUR ALLEY."

1.

all the twice ten thousand bards

That ever penned a canto,

Whom Pudding or whom Praise rewards

For lining a portmanteau;

Of all the poets ever known,

From Grub-street to Fop's Alley,

The Muse may boast—the World must own

There 's none like pretty Gally!

2.

He writes as well as any Miss,

Has published many a poem;