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Apollo, to Mr C— F—, on His Being Satirized by an Ignorant Person
From Poems, Chiefly Pastoral (1766)
Whether he's worth your spleen or not,
You've ask'd me to determine;
I wish, my friend, a nobler lot,
Than that of trampling vermin.
A blockhead can't be worth our care,
Unless that we'd befriend him:
As you've some common sense to spare,
I'll pay you what you lend him.
Codex Note
Text from the Eighteenth Century Collections Online / ECCO-TCP transcription (TCP K093533), Poems, Chiefly Pastoral (1766).
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