...man of rhyme, Happy! to catch me— just at dinner time.7 Is there a parson, much bemus'd in beer, A maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, A clerk, foredoom'd...there, who, lock'd from ink and paper, scrawls With desperate charcoal round his darken'd walls ? All fly to Twit'nam, and in humble strain Apply to me,...

...man of rhyme, Happy ! to eatchmc — ^ist at dinner time. Is there a parson, much bemns'd in beer, A maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, A clerk, foredoom'd...there, who, lock'd from ink and paper, scrawls With desperate charcoal round his darken'd walls ? All fly to Twit'nam, and in humble strain Apply to me,...

...man of rhyme, Happy ! to catch me— just at dinner time. Is there a parson, much bemus'd in beer, A maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, A clerk, foredoom'd...there, who, lock'd from ink and paper, scrawls With desperate charcoal round his darken'd walls ? All fly to Twit'nam, and in humble strain Apply to me,...

...man of rhyme, Happy! to catch me— just at dinner time.1 Is there a parson, much bemus'd in beer, A maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, A clerk, foredoom'd...when he should engross ? Is there, who, lock'd from infc and paper, scrawls With desperate charcoal round his darken'd walls ? All fly to Twit'nam, and...

...man of rhyme, Happy ! to catch me— just at dinner time.'1 Is there a parson, much bemus'd in oeer, A maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, A clerk, foredoom'd...father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza, when he shflald engross ? Is there, who, lock'd from ink and paper, scrawls With desperate charcoal round his...

...walks forth the man of rhyme, Happy ! to catch me, just at dinner-time. Is there a parson much bemused in beer, 15 A maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, A clerk,...there, who lock'd from ink and paper, scrawls With desperate charcoal round his darken'd walls ? 20 All fly to TWIT'NAM, and in humble strain Apply to...

...dinner-time. Is there a mortal much bemused in beer, A maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, A clerk foredoomed his father's soul to cross, ' Who pens a stanza, when he should engross, — Is there, who, locked from ink and paper, scrawls With desperate charcoal round his darkened walls ? All fly to Twick'nham,...

...dinner-time. Is there a mortal much bemused in beer, A maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, A clerk foredoomed his father's soul to cross, ' Who pens a stanza, when he should engross, — Is there, who, locked from ink and paper, scrawls With desperate charcoal round his darkened walls ? All fly to Twick'nhatn,...

...man of rhyme, Happy to catch me !— just at dinner time. Is there a parson, much hemused in heer, A maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, A clerk foredoom'd...to cross, Who pens a stanza when he should engross ; I8 there who, lock'd from ink and paper, scrawl* With desperate charcoal round his darken'd walls...

...although he may not literally have realised Pope's couplet, and have been — " A clerk foredoomed his father's soul to cross, Who pens a stanza, when he should engross," he yet exhibited an early bias towards literature, but the severer Clio — modern scholiasts write...