To Some Critics.
Wretches! Speak wretched of me,
but oblige me by truthfully adding:
Earnest is he. For the rest,
wretches, speak wretched of me.
An die Herren H. J. K.
Lumpen! redet lumpig von mir,
doch saget: es war ihm
Ernst! und redet sodann,
Lumpen, ihr lumpig von mir.