That I may write them in corrected line:

And when my scroll[101] is publish’d, I shall crave

Your Lordship’s care of one. (Now, to be grave)—

Pray give allowance for my ignorance—

If I am pert; if I, through lack of sense,

Have trespass’d on your Lordship’s valued time—

Some specimens of my attempted rhyme.

’Tis not my wish to cornet forth my name,

Nor can I e’er expect to gather fame,

But only hope, my lord, you kindly will