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Rh The shame is yours, the gain is his,

In case you should not know 'em:

He has ten thousand pounds a year—

I do not mean to vally—

His songs at sixpence would be dear,

So give them gratis, Gally!

3.

And if this statement should seem queer,

Or set down in a hurry,

Go, ask (if he will be sincere)

His bookseller—John Murray.

Come, say, how many have been sold,

And don't stand shilly-shally,

Of bound and lettered, red and gold,

Well printed works of Gally.

4.

For Astley's circus Upton writes,

And also for the Surry; (sic)

Fitzgerald weekly still recites,

Though grinning Critics worry:

Miss Holford's Peg, and Sotheby's Saul,

In fame exactly tally;

From Stationer's Hall to Grocer's Stall

They go—and so does Gally.