Elizabeth, it surely is most fit br [Logic and common usage so commanding] br In thy own book that first thy name be writ, br Zeno and other sages notwithstanding; br And I have other reasons for so doing br Besides my innate love of contradiction; br Each poet - if a poet - in pursuing br The muses thro' their bowers of Truth or Fiction, br Has studied very little of his part, br Read nothing, written less - in short's a fool br Endued with neither soul, nor sense, nor art, br Being ignorant of one important rule, br Employed in even the theses of the school- br Called - I forget the heathenish Greek name br [Called anything, its meaning is the same] br "Always write first things uppermost in the heart.