Some tender soft and plaintive air, With dying symphonies between. The airy dance and jovial song, To hautboy dulcimer and fiddle; Conundrum, forfeit, jest, and riddle. in And I might tell, as bards have done- (Such curses heav'n ne'er bring upon us!) How fair ones took their partners in, (A common case with those who win,) . And lady ROUNDABOUT M.FLINN · Was six by cards, and four by honors.. IL : That some FAIR NYMPH of honor peerless Teazen, They with true magisterial dryness: . .. • XVI. scold us!” XVII. “ Good gentlemen! may I be pounded But that your fears are idly grounded. . XVIII. "Tis true, I started and was dumb, To see your rev’rend worships come Upon an embassy so rum, With long bag-wigs, and robes of ermine; And, (to add comfort to my life). XIX. Which we may buy at fair of Bart'lemy - And then the thought is most appalling, Of wives hallooing; children squalling, XX. - And make their husbands in the room sticks; .. . txt . ne. To furnish this expensive goddess? :: XXII. Swear you were stingy, I were cruel; . And then (good people, have compassion! In some accursed whin of fashion, She'd sell my kingdom for a jewel. XXII. . * And she must have quite snug and handy, A private thimble-full of brandy, To cure the mulligrubs, so stitching; And, though a nymph of peerless honor, The habit p'r’aps may steal upon her, For liquor's mightily bewitching. * And sure 'twould shock my tender feeling To see her Majesty a-reeling, Drunk as the sow of good King David; To see their Queen so ill-behaved! |