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William Blake (1757–1827). The Poetical Works. 1908.

On Friends and Foes

Was I angry with Hayley who us’d me so ill

WAS I angry with Hayley who us’d me so ill,

Or can I be angry with Felpham’s old mill?

Or angry with Flaxman, or Cromek, or Stothard,

Or poor Schiavonetti, whom they to death bother’d?

Or angry with Macklin, or Boydell, or Bowyer,

Because they did not say ‘O what a beau ye are’?

At a friend’s errors anger show,

Mirth at the errors of a foe.