impromptu lines to captain riddell(2 / 2)

but of meet or unmeet,

in a fabric plete,

i'll boldly pronounce they are none, sir;

my goose-quill too rude is

to tell all your goodness

bestow'd on your servant, the poet;

would to god i had one

like a beam of the sun,

and then all the world, sir, should know it!