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CANTO III.]
HUDIBRAS.
423

As you have well instructed me,
For which you 've earn'd, here 'tis, your fee.
I long to practise your advice,
And try the subtle artifice;
To bait a letter as you bid— 785
As, not long after, thus he did:
For, having pump'd up all his wit.
And humm'd upon it, thus he writ.