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EPIGRAM LIV.
[When a bard, o'er his pipe, a dull ditty composes]
QUALIS AB INCEPTO.
When a bard, o'er his pipe, a dull ditty composes,
And critics, unmerciful, turn up their noses,
With anonymous praises the papers he stuffs;
And the offspring of whiffs, is the parent of puffs.
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