To Mr. Murray

FOR Orford and for Waldegrave

You give much more than me you _gave_;

Which is not fairly to behave,

My Murray!

Because if a live dog, 't is said,

Be worth a lion fairly sped,

A live lord must be worth _two_ dead,

My Murray!

And if, as the opinion goes,

Verse hath a better sale than prose,--

Certes, I should have more than those,

My Murray!

But now this sheet is nearly crammed,

So, if _you will_, _I_ shan't be shammed,

And if you _won't_,--_you_ may be damned,

My Murray!