While with false pride, and narrow jealousy,
Numbers reject each new expression, won,
Perchance, from language richer than our own,
O! with glad welcome may the POET see
Extension's golden vantage! the decree
Each way exclusive, scorn, and re-enthrone
The obsolete, if strength, or grace of tone
Or imagery await it, with a free,
And liberal daring!--For the Critic Train,
Whose eyes severe our verbal stores review,
Let the firm Bard require that they explain
Their _cause_ of censure; then in balance true
Weigh it; but smile at the objections vain
Of sickly Spirits, hating _for they do_[1]!
1: The particle _for_ is used in the same sense with _because_, by
Shakespear, and Beaumont and Fletcher.
“But she, and I, were Creatures innocent,
Lov'd _for_ we _did_.” BEA. and FLE. TWO NOBLE KINSMEN.
“----Nor must you think
I will your serious and great business scant
_For_ she is with me.” OTHELLO.
“They're jealous _for_ they're jealous.” OTHELLO.