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The Poems of John Byrom

Edited by Adolphus William Ward

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XIII. ON THE SAME.

Hotspur was very ready to turn out,
And write irregularly Rump about;
But when his Trash Correctors came to read,
They altered “Jackanapes!” to “Pert indeed!”
Passing by Nonsense in all other Shapes,
Why should they turn thee out, poor Jackanapes?