Have I not raised some expectation here?
“Wrote by herself? What! authoress and player?
True, we have heard her”—thus I guess’d you’d say—
“With decency recite another’s lay;
But never heard, nor ever could we dream,
Herself had sipp’d the Heliconian stream.”
Perhaps you farther said—Excuse me, pray,
For thus supposing all that you might say—
“What will she treat of in this same address?
Is it to show her learning? Can you guess?”