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Some Commendatory Verses
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URGANDA THE UNKNOWN
To the book of Don Quixote of la Mancha
 ; If to be welcomed by the good,
 ;  ;  ; O Book! thou make thy steady aim,
 ; No empty chatterer will dare
 ;  ;  ; To question or dispute thy claim.
 ; But if perchance thou hast a mind
 ;  ;  ; To win of idiots approbation,
 ; Lost labour will be thy reward,
 ;  ;  ; Though they‘ll pretend appreciation.
 ; They say a goodly shade he finds
 ;  ;  ; Who shelters ‘neath a goodly tree;
 ; And such a one thy kindly star
 ;  ;  ; In Bejar bath provided thee:
 ; A royal tree whose spreading boughs
 ;  ;  ; A show of princely fruit display;
 ; A tree that bears a noble Duke,
 ;  ;  ; The Alexander of his day.
 ; Of a Manchegan gentleman
 ;  ;  ; Thy purpose is to tell the story,
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