Excerpt from Humorous and Other Poetic Pictures: Legends and Stories of Devon Thanks, my good friends, for the advice you give If all the same to you, I 'd rather live To reap the profit which my pen may earn, And leave Posterity's pale lamp to burn. A poet is not very much to blame Who writes for profit sure, and chances fame, And thinks that man almost a mortal sinner Who courts the Muse and goes without his dinner. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.