blots;
And these, as tapers round a sick man’s room
Or passing chimes, but warn’d me of the tomb! 
   O! if you blast, at once consume my bays,
And damn me not with mutilated praise. 
With candour judge; and, a young bard in view,
Allow for that, and judge with kindness too;
Faults he must own, though hard for him to find,
Not to some happier merits quite so blind;
These if mistaken Fancy only sees,
Or Hope, that takes Deformity for these: 
If Dunce, the crowd-befitting title falls
His lot, and Dulness her new subject calls,
To the poor bard alone your censures give —
Let his fame die, but let his honour live;
Laugh if you must—­be candid as you can,
And when you lash the Poet, spare the Man.

Footnotes: 

{1} First published in Ipswich, 1775.

{2} First published 1780.

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