You Ask for a " Volume of Nonsense "
[To John Murray, September 28, 1820.]
You ask for a " Volume of Nonsense ,"
Have all of your authors exhausted their store?
I thought you had publish'd a good deal not long since,
And doubtless the Squadron are ready with more.
But on looking again, I perceive that the Species
Of " Nonsense" you want must be purely " facetious ;"
And, as that is the case, you had best put to press
Mr. Sotheby's tragedies now in MSS.
Some Syrian Sally
From common-place Gally,
Or, if you prefer the bookmaking of women,
Take a spick and Span " Sketch" of your feminine He-man .
You ask for a " Volume of Nonsense ,"
Have all of your authors exhausted their store?
I thought you had publish'd a good deal not long since,
And doubtless the Squadron are ready with more.
But on looking again, I perceive that the Species
Of " Nonsense" you want must be purely " facetious ;"
And, as that is the case, you had best put to press
Mr. Sotheby's tragedies now in MSS.
Some Syrian Sally
From common-place Gally,
Or, if you prefer the bookmaking of women,
Take a spick and Span " Sketch" of your feminine He-man .
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