Upon Miss Arab More Desiring My Handwriting for a Book in Which She Has Collected the Handwriting of Celebrated Men

In that choice book to wits devoted,
And kept by you, my partial fair,
What, shall a name like mine be noted
Among the various worthies there?

In that rare list I claim no place,
Proud in your mind to fix my name,
While the true sons of genius grace
The memorandum book of fame.

Yet I obey, if you command,
Of Glory's page usurp a part,
For you have right to ask the hand
Who have already got the heart.
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