XXIX + 

They wish that ladies should, I hear, + 

Learn Russian, but the Lord defend! + 

I can’t conceive a little dear + 

With the Well-Wisher in her hand! + 

I ask, all ye who poets are, + 

Is it not true? the objects fair, + 

To whom ye for unnumbered crimes + 

Had to compose in secret rhymes, + 

To whom your hearts were consecrate⁠— + 

Did they not all the Russian tongue + 

With little knowledge and that wrong + 

In charming fashion mutilate? + 

Did not their lips with foreign speech + 

The native Russian tongue impeach? + 