Poem by Anonymous

To a Worn-Out Author

When next you’re in print, Ned, for money or fame,
Be advis’d by a friend, let the work want your name: 
For whoever in that should unluckily look,
And remembers your last, will ne’er open the book.

1. Gathering of Atholl
2. Lord Strafford’s Meditations in the Tower
3. The Bells of Fletching
4. The Old Scottish Gentleman
5. Barthram’s Dirge

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