I’ll pick my man, my pistols and place,
I know a very nice little spot—
Hand him one, with most infinite grace.
And either shoot him, or be shot!
From Cribblings from the Poets, by Hugh Cayley. Jones and Piggott. Cambridge. 1883.
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Supposed to have been written by Salisbury Selkirk, during his solitary abode in a Desert Chamber.
I am monarch of all I survey;
My facts there are none to dispute;