Of better entertainment:—let us hence!"

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Loth to forsake the spot, and still more loth

To be diverted from our present theme,

I said, "My thoughts, agreeing, Sir, with yours,

Would push this censure farther;—for, if smiles

Of scornful pity be the just reward

Of Poesy thus courteously employed

In framing models to improve the scheme

Of Man's existence, and recast the world,