English poem
To M[Ary] L[Ocke]
by Charles Lamb
Acrostic
Must I write with pen unwilling And describe those graces killing Rightly, which I never saw? Yes--it is the Album's law.
Let me then Invention strain On your excelling charms to feign-- Cold is Fiction? I believe it Kindly, as I did receive it, Even as J.F.'s tongue did weave it.