For Oxford and for Waldegrave <br />You give much more than me you gave; <br />Which is not fairly to behave, <br />My Murray. <br /> <br />Because if a live dog, 'tis said, <br />Be worth a lion fairly sped, <br />A live lord must be worth two dead, <br />My Murray. <br /> <br />And if, as the opinion goes, <br />Verse hath a better sale than prose-- <br />Certes, I should have more than those, <br />My Murray. <br /> <br />But now this sheet is nearly cramm'd, <br />So, if you will, I shan't be shamm'd, <br />And if you won't, you may be damn'd, <br />My Murray.<br /><br />George Gordon Byron<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/to-mr-murray-for-oxford-and-for-waldegrave/
