Clue should have said, if only one occurr'd,
Not correspondent words to each, but word.
From some suspicions of a bite, we guess
The number of the letters to be less;
And, from expression of a certain cast,
Some joke, unequal to the pains at last:
Could you have said that all was right and clever,
We should have try'd more fortunate endeavour.
It should contain, should this same JEU DE MOTS,
Clean-pointed turn, short, fair, and >A PROPOS;