Resolved another work to make, I wrote the _Lady of the Lake_; The Lady was so much the rage, That she was brought upon the stage; But grief to tell! The younger Colman must think fit, (In order to display his wit) My Lady, who the Lake did deck, To make _the Lady of the_ WRECK; Nor was this all――for――oh, for shame! Presumptuous Plagiary, I wot, Stole all my sentiments and plot, And made a _novel_ of the same. I’ll nought of _Don Roderic_ say, For that, sirs, had never fair play And well the poor author may rail In oblivion Don Roderic lay; For all must allow, There wer’nt puffs enow, And how could it then have a sale? I then my dear _Rokeby_ devised―― By MURRAY ’twas well advertised; For he made a boast In the _Times_ and the _Post_, (And many the puffs too believed) That he the _first copies_ received―― But oh my unfortunate Rokeby; Who e’er of a parody dream’t, To bring thee thus into comtempt, Metamorphosing thee into JOKEBY. When I saw――oh, how great was my passion, The bills upon Edinburgh wall―― Fit dress for this writer of fashion[41]―― I sent men to cover them all. Now, gentlemen, as I have hinted, I wish a new work to be printed―― Another’s already prepared, Then don’t let your money be spared. I hate in my price to be stinted―― ’Tis such――it will baffle all wit, ’Tis such that no burlesque can hit; ’Tis such so sublime and so grand―― The critics will not understand. And I long――ah, I long now to show ’em, The charms of my forthcoming Poem. From ACCEPTED ADDRESSES, or _Præmium Poetarum_. London, Thomas Tegg, 1813. ――――:o:―――― “THE POETIC MIRROR, _or the Living Bards of Britain_,” is the title of a small volume published by Longmans & Co., London, in 1816. This contains poems which are ascribed, in the index, to Lord Byron, Walter Scott, W. Wordsworth, James Hogg, S. T. Coleridge, J. Wilson, and Robert Southey. In the introduction the Editor remarks that he claims no merit save that of having procured from the authors the various Poems contained in the volume, and he leads one to believe that the names affixed to the Poems represent the real authors.