Elizabeth -- it surely is most fit (Logic and common usage so commanding) In thy own book that @3first@1 thy name be writ, Zeno and other sages notwithstanding; And @3I@1 have other reasons for so doing Besides my innate love of contradiction; Each poet -- @3if@1 a poet -- in pursuing The muses thro' their bowers of Truth or Fiction, Has studied very little of his part, Read nothing, written less -- in short's a fool Endued with neither soul, nor sense, nor art, Being ignorant of one important rule, Employed in even the theses of the school -- Called -- I forget the heathenish Greek name -- (Called any thing, its meaning is the same) "Always write @3first@1 things uppermost in the heart." |