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HE TELLS HIS CREDITOR THAT THE MORE HE'S DUNNED, THE MORE HE WON'T...., by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Since you've begun, o, teazingest of men
Last Line: At best your eloquence is no great things


Since you've begun, 0, teazingest of men,
To dun me every quarter of an hour,
'Tis clear that in nine cases out of ten
You act from habit - not Volition's power.
Your words may rattle out of you, but when
They do I hear them as one would a shower
Of pop-gun pellets levelled at some tower,
Whereof the guns know nothing there and then.
I lately read in some old Magazine
Or some Automaton of German breed
That used to speak by means of tubes and springs;
'Tis thus You speak to Me, you mere machine!
So I'll not mind you further- and indeed
At best your eloquence is no great things.






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