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thrice welcome, then, for this peculiar use,

thy pens so innocent of goose!

for this shall dramatists, when they make merry,

discarding port and sherry,

drink—“perry!”

perry, whose fame, pennated, is let loose

to distant lands,

perry, admitted on all hands,

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text, running, german, roman,

for patent perryans approach’d by no man!

and when, ah me! far distant be the hour!

pluto shall call thee to his gloomy bow’r,

many shall be thy pensive mourners, many!

and penury itself shall club its penny,

to raise thy monument in lofty place;

higher than york’s, or any son of war;

whilst time all meaner effigies shall bury,

on due pentagonal base,

shall stand the parian, perryan, perriwig’d perry

perch’d on the proudest peak of penman mawr!