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WHENCE deathless K-C took its name, Few criticks can unriddle: Some say from it came, And some, from and. From no trim beaux its name it boasts, Gray statesmen, or green wits; But from this pellmell pack of toasts Of old and young.

WHAT'S fame with men, by custom of the nation, Is call'd, in women, only reputation: About them both why keep we such a pother? Part you with one, and I'll renounce the other. VERSES