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AN ULTRA LICENSE.
FROM ALFIERI.
APPROVAZIONE
Di Fra Tozzone
Per l’impressione
Di un libruccione
Che un autorone
Ai piedi pone
Di un principone
Con dedicone.
SI STAMPI PUR, SI STAMPI:
QUI NON C'E' NULLA, NE RAGION, NE LAMPI.
THE approbation
Of Father Stuffation
For the imprimation
Of a pamphliteration
Which a light of the nation
With all humiliation
Sends a man in great station
With a dedication.
PRINT IT BY ALL MEANS, PRINT IT:
THERE'S NOTHING RATIONAL, NOT E'EN A HINT, IN'T.
________
Ægle, beauty and poet, has two little crimes;
She makes her own face, and does not make her rhymes.
EDITORIAL NOTES
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1] Composition by G. G. Byron (1788-1824), first published in
The Liberal.