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To the Learned Critic


XVII.
 ? TO THE LEARNED CRITIC.
  
May others fear, fly, and traduce thy name,
    As guilty men do magistrates ; glad I,
That wish my poems a legitimate fame,
    Charge them, for crown, to thy sole censure hie.
And but a sprig of bays, given by thee,
Shall outlive garlands, stol'n from the chaste tree.


Poem by Ben Jonson
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