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I love the words which run so easy—
Boat and float—and you and do—
Ass and grass make pretty rhyme;
Boat, I’ve used it many a time,
And ass—times just forty-two.
The parody is amusing, but exceedingly frivolous, as no attempt is made to do more than ridicule the simplicity of Wordsworth’s diction.
Lord Byron on “Peter Bell.”
Messrs. J. W. Jarvis & Son, booksellers, of King William Street, Strand, have a scarce little work from which they kindly allow the following extracts to be made:—