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I Read the 'Christabel';
  Very well:
I read the Missionary';
  Pretty - very
I tried at Ilderim ;
  Ahem!
I read a sheet of  'Marg'ret of Anjou';
  Can you?
I turn'd a page of Scott's 'Waterloo';
  Pooh! pooh!
I look'd at Wordsworth's milk-white
  'Rylstone Doe';
  Hillo!
&c. &c. &c.

March 1817.

© George Gordon Byron