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A Remark on the Poverty of Poets.
If poverty that virtue had
That it all poets perfect made,
I would be one as good as any;
For often I have not a penny;
That it all poets perfect made,
I would be one as good as any;
For often I have not a penny;
Yea more sublime drown'd o'er the head
With debt, and pinching want of bread:
If these be the unerring muse,
I have the bays none can refuse.
With debt, and pinching want of bread:
If these be the unerring muse,
I have the bays none can refuse.
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