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Rh Then your face we might behold,

Looking, doubtless, much more snugly,

Yet even then 'twould be damned ugly. August 12, 1819. [First published, Letters and Journals, 1830, ii. 235.]

EPILOGUE.

1.

something in a stupid ass,

And something in a heavy dunce;

But never since I went to school

I heard or saw so damned a fool

As William Wordsworth is for once.

2.

And now I've seen so great a fool

As William Wordsworth is for once;

I really wish that Peter Bell

And he who wrote it were in hell,

For writing nonsense for the nonce.