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This little fable heard,

It good or ill may be;

But it has just occurr’d,

Thus accidentally.

Passing my abode,

Some fields adjoining me,

A big Ass on his road

Came accidentally;

And laid upon the spot,

A Flute he chanced to see,

Some shepherd had forgot,

There accidentally.

The animal in front,

To scan it nigh came he,

And snuffing loud as wont,

Blew accidentally.

The air it chanced around

The pipe went passing free,

And thus the Flute a sound

Gave accidentally.

“O! then,” exclaim’d the Ass,

“I know to play it fine;

And who for bad shall class

The music asinine?”

Without the rules of art,

Ev’n asses, we agree,

May once succeed in part,

Thus accidentally.