SUUM CUIQUE
(1830)
Adsciscit sibi divitias et opes alienas
Fur, rapiens, spolians quod mihi, quodque tibi
Proprium erat, temnens haec verba, Meumque Tuumque;
Omne Suum est. Tandem cuique suum tribuit.
Dat laqueo collum: vestes, vah! carnifici dat:
Sese Diabolo; sic bene, Cuique Suum.
[ON THE LITERARY GAZETTE]
(1830)
In merry England I computed once
The number of the dunces—dunce for dunce;
There were four hundred, if I don't forget,
All readers of the L———y G——-e;
But if the author to himself keep true,
In some short months they'll be reduced to two.