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. The Enchanted Island
2. Lord Strafford’s Meditations in the Tower
3. The Cave of Pope
4. Ettrick Banks
5. Sir Richard Whittington’s Advancement

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