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sarcastic notes had been in another key because I think it would have improved the general Harmony & Beauty of the Poem - but you certainly justify yrself by Example, & probably it will not strike other Readers in the \same/ Light as it strikes me, from the accidental Circumstance of my having written an idle Squib to a neighbouring poetical Justice of our Country, which you shall see when we have the Happiness of seeing you —

I wish you may be able to decypher this vilest of Scrawls