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TO DR. SHERIDAN by JONATHAN SWIFT

First Line: IF I WRITE ANY MORE, IT WILL MAKE MY POOR MUSE SICK
Last Line: WHO OFTEN HAS MADE ME, BY LOOKING ASKEW, SICK.
Subject(s): SHERIDAN, THOMAS (1687-1738);

If I write any more, it will make my poor muse sick.
This night I came home with a very cold dew sick,
And I wish I may soon not be of an a-gue sick;
But, I hope I shall ne'er be, like you, of a shrew sick,
Who often has made me, by looking askew, sick.



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