Elizabeth

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Elizabeth

ElizabethвБ†вАФit surely is most fit

[Logic and common usage so commanding]

In thy own book that first thy name be writ,

Zeno and other sages notwithstanding;

And I have other reasons for so doing

Besides my innate love of contradiction;

Each poetвБ†вАФif a poetвБ†вАФin pursuing

The muses throвАЩ their bowers of Truth or Fiction,

Has studied very little of his part,

Read nothing, written lessвБ†вАФin short вАЩs a fool

Endued with neither soul, nor sense, nor art,

Being ignorant of one important rule,

Employed in even the theses of the schoolвБ†вАФ

CalledвБ†вАФI forget the heathenish Greek name

[Called anything, its meaning is the same]

вАЬAlways write first things uppermost in the heart.вАЭ