I READ the "Christabel;"
Very well:
I read the "Missionary;"
Pretty—very:
I tried at "Ilderim;"
Ahem!
I read a sheet of "Marg'ret of Anjou;"
Can you?
I turned a page of Webster's "Waterloo;"
Pooh! pooh!
I looked at Wordsworth's milk-white "Rylstone Doe;"
Hillo!
I read "Glenarvon," too, by Caro Lamb;
God damn!
March 25, 1817.
[First published, Letters and Journals, 1830, ii. 87.]