(A hardish job, as some may view it,
Yet some of you know how to do it);
Or Master's cane may go to wrack,
To keep it off the stoker's back!
Still 'one more word': I do beseech you,
If disapproving aught I teach you,—
(Which I not only won't resent,
But deem my highest compliment,
The true intent 'no how' mistook,
With which I really wrote this book,)