With which moral I drop my theorbo.

TIME'S REVENGES

I've a Friend, over the sea;

I like him, but he loves me.

It all grew out of the books I write;

They find such favor in his sight

That he slaughters you with savage looks

Because you don't admire my books.

He does himself though,—and if some vein

Were to snap to-night in this heavy brain,