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[If Scorners term these Ballads, 'twill not much]

If Scorners term these Ballads, 'twill not much
Regarded be, though there be many such:
For, they, perhaps, are Fools, or Children, yet;
And may be wiser, when they shall have wit.
If any thinks these Odes are over long,
Let him not do his credit so much wrong,
To say it, till he sees what may be spar'd;
And, passe thereon his judgment, afterward.

iv

There can arise no great discommendation,
By lengthening out a pious Recreation:
Nor merit they much heed, that can be weary
To sing of Dangers past, and to be merry.