1. O master, how generous your gifts of books and paper!
How you have favored me with bounties of writing and reading!

2. Your servant comes seeking noble hopes—
A copy of "Explication of Rhetorical Beauties" is what I desire.

3. So grant it, I implore, for I have come in want
Of some share of the learning you possess.

4. Your generosity has set for us an excellent example,
Taking the abundant without reluctance or distress.