“1. That no person be admitted a member of this society, without Letters Testimonial, to be sign’d by three persons of credit, that he has distinguished himself in some tale, catch, sonnet, epigram, madrigal, anagram, acrostick, tragedy, comedy, farce, or epick poem. “2. That no person be admitted a member of this society, who has any visible way of living, or can spend five shillings per annum _de proprio_; it being an established maxim, that no rich man can be a good poet. “3. That no member presume to discover the secrets of this society to any body whatsoever, upon pain of expulsion. “4. That no member in any of his lucubrations do transgress the rules of Aristotle, or any other sound critick, antient or modern, under pain of having his said lucubrations burnt, in a full club, by the hands of the small-beer drawer. “5. That no member do presume in any of his writings, to reflect on the Church of England, as by law established, or either of the two famous universities, or upon any magistrate or member of the same under pain of having his said writings burnt as aforesaid and being himself expell’d. “6. That no tobacco be smoked in this society; the fumigation thereof being supposed to cloud the poetical faculty, and to clog the subtle wheels of the Imagination. “7. That no member do repeat any verses, without leave first had and obtained from Mr President. “8. That no person be allowed above the space of one hour at a time to repeat. “9. That no person do print any of his verses, without the approbation of the major part of the society, under pain of expulsion. “10. That every member do subscribe his name to the foregoing articles.”