To hook the reader, you, John Murray, <br />Have publish'd 'Anjou's Margaret, <br />Which won't be sold off in a hurry <br />(At least, it has not been as yet); <br />And then, still further to bewilder em, <br />Without remorse, you set up 'Ilderim;' <br />So mind you don't get into debt, <br />Because as how, if you should fail, <br />These books would he but baddish bail. <br /> <br />And mind you do not let escape <br />These rhymes to Morning Post or Parry, <br />Which would be very treacherous--very, <br />And get me into such a scrape! <br />For, firstly, I should have to sally, <br />All in my little boat, against a Galley; <br />And, should I chance to slay the Assyrian wight, <br />Have next to combat with the female knight. <br /> <br />March 25, 1817.<br /><br />George Gordon Byron<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/to-mr-murray/
