Charles Lamb - To My Friend, the Indicator lyrics

Your easy Essays indicate a flow, Dear friend, of brain which we may elsewhere seek; And to their pages I and hundreds owe, That Wednesday is the sweetest of the week. Such observation, wit, and sense, are shown, We think the days of Bickerstaff return'd; And that a portion of that oil you own, In his undying midnight lamp which burn'd. I would not lightly bruise old Priscian's head Or wronog the rules of grammar understood; But, with the leave of Priscian be it said, The Indicative is your Potential Mood. Wit, poet, prose-man, party-man, translator-- H, your best title yet is Indicator.