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TO A POET, WHO WOULD HAVE ME

PRAISE CERTAIN BAD POETS, IMI-

TATORS OF HIS AND MINE

You say, as I have often given tongue
In praise of what another's said or sung,
'Twere politic to do the like by these;
But have you known a dog to praise his fleas?

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