Sir Jeffery.

"I knew him not, but this I know,

What pleasure to his works I owe;

And you will meet my partial whim—

Prove that you e'er belong'd to him.

Treasur'd within that curtain'd case,

His works possess a favour'd place;

And if the binding aught can tell,

They show that I respect them well.

Go, take a volume down, and look—

Perhaps, my friend, you know the book."