Select Poems, 1821, p. 90. [See "Fragments of Criticism," Works of Charles Lamb, 1903, iii. 284.] 

[31] [Hermilda in Palestine was published in 1812, in quarto, and twice reissued in 1813, as part of Poems on Various Occasions (8vo). The Lines upon Rogers' Epistle to a Friend appeared first in the Gentleman's Magazine for April, 1813, vol. 83, p. 357, and were reprinted in the second edition of Poems, etc., 1813, pp. 162, 163. The lines in italics, which precede each stanza, are taken from the last stanza of Lord Thurlow's poem.]

[31]

TO LORD THURLOW.[32]

1.

"I lay my branch of laurel down."

"Thou lay thy branch of laurel down!"

Thou

Why, what thou'st stole is not enow;

And, were it lawfully thine own,

Does Rogers want it most, or thou?

Keep to thyself thy withered bough,

Or send it back to Doctor Donne:[20][33]

[20]

Were justice done to both, I trow,

He'd have but little, and thou—none.

2.

"Then, thus, to form Apollo's crown."

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