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 And has taken just now a firm resolution To answer your style without circumlocution. Lady Betty presents you her service most humble, And is not afraid your worship will grumble, That she makes of your verses a hoop for miss Tam , Which is all at present; and so I remain —

ON DR. SHERIDAN'S CIRCULAR VERSES.

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musick and poetry equally blest, A bard thus Apollo most humbly addrest; "Great author of harmony, verses, and light! Assisted by thee, I both fiddle and write. Yet unheeded I scrape, or I scribble all day, My verse is neglected, my tunes thrown away. Thy substitute here, Vice-Apollo, disdains To vouch for my numbers, or list to my strains; Thy manual signet refuses to put To the airs I produce from the pen or the gut. Be thou then propitious, great Phœbus! and grant Relief, or reward, to my merit, or want. Though the Dean and Delany transcendently shine, O brighten one solo or sonnet of mine! With them I'm content thou shouldst make thy abode; But visit thy servant in jig or in ode; " Make