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But that, alas! is not the case,
And I'm compell'd to fill
This terribly vexatious space
With nonsense 'gainst my will.
And I'm compell'd to fill
This terribly vexatious space
With nonsense 'gainst my will.
TO ELIZA.
When you were here the other night,
I promised fair Eliza,
Within your Album gay to write;
But now I am grown wiser.
I promised fair Eliza,
Within your Album gay to write;
But now I am grown wiser.
For as I have had information
That you at verse are clever,
I'm come to the determination,
To close your book for ever.
That you at verse are clever,
I'm come to the determination,
To close your book for ever.
