“Go to Hell” said the voice, “What, I?” said I inwardly, “I go?”

When lo, and behold, a great wonder! I, I, Robert Southey,

Even I, Robert Southey, Esquire, L.L.D. Poet Laureate,

Member of the Royal Spanish Academy, of the

Ditto of History too, of the Institute Royal

Of Dutchland, and eke of the Welch Cymmodorion wonder,

Author of Joan of Arc, of much Jacobin verse, and Wat Tyler,

Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera,

(For it’s unknown all the things that I am, and have written),

I, as I said before, ev’n I, by myself, I,