III.
Once I was asked advice, and task’d What works to buy or not, And “would I read that passage out I so admired in Scott?” They then could bear to hear one read; But if I now began, How they would snub “My pretty page,” I’m not a single man!
Once I was asked advice, and task’d What works to buy or not, And “would I read that passage out I so admired in Scott?” They then could bear to hear one read; But if I now began, How they would snub “My pretty page,” I’m not a single man!