(So children cutting teeth receive a coral);
Meantime they'll doubtless please to recollect
My epical pretensions to the laurel:
For fear some prudish readers should grow skittish,
I've bribed my Grandmother's Review—the British.[87]
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I sent it in a letter to the Editor,
Who thanked me duly by return of post—
I'm for a handsome article his creditor;
Yet, if my gentle Muse he please to roast,