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Latest Release: Chapter 1 : The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb.by Charles Lamb and Mary Lamb.PREFACE TO THE NEW EDIT
The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb.by Charles Lamb and Mary Lamb.PREFACE TO THE NEW EDITION This edition is the same as that in seven large volumes published between 1903 and 1905, except that it has been revised and amended and arranged in more companion
- 259 In the last paragraph of the poem is a hint of "The Old Familiar Faces,"that was to follow it in the course of a few months.Lines 52, 53. _And one, above the rest_. Probably Coleridge is meant.Page 24. _Written soon after the Preceding Poem_.The
- 258 Lamb admired Cowper greatly in those days--particularly his "Crazy Kate"("Task," Book I., 534-556). "I have been reading 'The Task' with fresh delight," he says on December 5, 1796. "I am glad you love Cowper.
- 257 Page 9. _We were two pretty babes, the youngest she._ First printed in the _Monthly Magazine_, July, 1796. "The next and last [wrote Lamb in the letter to Coleridge referred to in the notes on page 310] I value most of all. 'Twas composed close
- 256 Page 5. _Methinks how dainty sweet it were, reclin'd._ When this sonnet was printed by Coleridge in 1796 the sestet was made to run thus:-- But ah! sweet scenes of fancied bliss, adieu!On rose-leaf beds amid your faery bowers I all too long have lost
- 255 KATHERINE But brief or long, I feel my fate hangs on it.[_Aside_.]SELBY "One morn the Caliph, in a covert hid, Close by an arbour where the two boys talk'd (As oft, we read, that Eastern sovereigns Would play the eaves-dropper, to learn the trut
- 254 MRS. FRAMPTON 'Tis no such serious matter. It was--Huntingdon.SELBY How have three little syllables pluck'd from me A world of countless hopes!-- [_Aside_.]Evasive Widow.MRS. FRAMPTON How, Sir! I like not this.[_Aside_.]SELBY No, no, I meant Not
- 253 [_Exeunt._]SCENE.-_Mrs. Selby's Chamber._ MRS. FRAMPTON. KATHERINE.MRS. FRAMPTON Did I express myself in terms so strong?KATHERINE As nothing could have more affrighted me.MRS. FRAMPTON Think it a hurt friend's jest, in retribution Of a suspecte
- 252 MRS. FRAMPTON What mean his alter'd tones? These looks to me, Whose glances yet he has repell'd with coolness?Is the wind changed? I'll veer about with it, And meet him in all fas.h.i.+ons. [_Aside._]All my leisure, Feebly bestow'd upo
- 251 This posture to your friend had better suited The orphan Katherine in her humble school-days To the _then_ rich heiress, than the wife of Selby, Of wealthy Mr. Selby, To the poor widow Frampton, sunk as she is.Come, come, 'Twas something, or 'tw
- 250 LUCY To drive her and her pride to Lucifer, I hope he means. [_Aside_.]MRS. FRAMPTON I must go trim myself; this humbled garb Would shame a wedding feast. I have your leave For a short absence?--and your Katherine-- SELBY You'll find her in her close
- 249 SELBY 'Twas a bolt At random shot; but if it hit, believe me, I am most sorry to have wounded you Through a friend's side. I know not how we have swerved From our first talk. I was to caution you Against this fault of a too grateful nature: Whic
- 248 FLINT I guess what is pa.s.sing in your mind, Mr. Davenport; but you have behaved upon the whole so like a man of honour, that it will give me pleasure, if you will visit at my house for the future; but _(smiling)_ not clandestinely, Marian.MARIAN Hush, f
- 247 MISS FLYN The same----now I have him sure.JUSTICE Let him be sent for. I believe the gentleman to be respectable, and will accept his security.FLINT Why do I waste my time, where I have no business? None--I have none any more in the world--none._Enter Pen
- 246 MISS FLYN And yet I am more than half persuaded it is feasible._Enter Betty._ BETTY Mr. Davenport is below, ma'am, and desires to speak with you.MARIAN You will excuse me--_(going--turning back.)_--You will remember the casket? _[Exit.]_ MISS FLYN De
- 245 _(Betty retires to the window to read the letter, Mr. Pendulous enters.)_ MISS FLYN My dear Pendulous!PENDULOUS Maria!--nay, shun the embraces of a disgraced man, who comes but to tell you that you must renounce his society for ever.MISS FLYN Nay, Pendulo
- 244 CUTLET Lord have mercy upon us! not so bad as that comes to, I hope?PENDULOUS When she joins in the judgment of an illiberal world against me-- CUTLET You said HANGED, Sir--that is, I mean, perhaps I mistook you. How ghastly he looks!PENDULOUS Fear me not
- 243 PENDULOUS This served the purpose of a temporary concealment well enough; but when it came to the--_alibi_--I think they call it--excuse these technical terms, they are hardly fit for the mouth of a gentleman, the _witnesses_--that is another term--that I
- 242 CUTLET Some in drunken quarrels-- LUCY (_Aloud._) The butcher's shop at the corner.CUTLET What were you saying about poor Cleaver?LUCY He has found his ears at last. (_Aside._) That he has had his house burnt down.CUTLET Bless me!LUCY I saw four smal
- 241 SCENE II.--_A Butcher's Shop._ CUTLET. BEN.CUTLET Reach me down that book off the shelf, where the shoulder of veal hangs.BEN Is this it?CUTLET No--this is "Flowers of Sentiment"--the other--aye, this is a good book."An Argument agains
- 240 FLINT Carry those umbrellas, cottons, and wearing-apparel, up stairs. You may send that chest of tools to Robins's.WILLIAM That which you lent six pounds upon to the journeyman carpenter that had the sick wife?FLINT The same.WILLIAM The man says, if
- 239 BELVIL Such a thing has been known as a name to be changed; but not by a subject--(_shews a Gazette_).MR. H.Gnawing at the root (_suddenly s.n.a.t.c.hes the paper out of Belvil's hand_); ha! pis.h.!.+ nonsense! give it me--what! (_reads_) promotions,
- 238 LANDLORD What is done can't be undone; you can't make a silken purse out of a sow's ear.MR. H.As you say, Landlord, thinking of a thing does but augment it.LANDLORD Does but _hogment_ it, indeed, Sir.MR. H._Hogment_ it! d.a.m.n it, I said,
- 237 FIFTH LADY Vile!SIXTH LADY Shocking!FIRST LADY Odious!SECOND LADY Hogs----pah!THIRD LADY A smelling bottle--look to Miss Melesinda. Poor thing! it is no wonder.You had better keep off from her, Mr. Hogsflesh, and not be pressing about her in her circ.u.ms
- 236 FIRST LADY A cross, I believe, you would willingly hang at.MELESINDA Intolerable spite!(MR. H. _is announced_.) (_Enter_ MR. H.) FIRST LADY O, Mr. H. we are so glad---- SECOND LADY We have been so dull---- THIRD LADY So perfectly lifeless----You owe it to
- 235 FIRST FOOTMAN That's not it, your honour.SECOND FOOTMAN You speak.FIRST FOOTMAN But if your honour would just be pleased to---- SECOND FOOTMAN Only be pleased to---- MR. H.Be quick with what you have to say, for I am in haste.FIRST FOOTMAN Just to---
- 234 _Enter Susan_.BOTH Well, Susan, have you heard any thing who the strange gentleman is?SUSAN Haven't you heard? it's all come out; Mrs. Guesswell, the parson's widow, has been here about it. I overheard her talking in confidence to Mrs. Sett
- 233 BELVIL Ha, ha, ha, but what course do you mean to pursue?MR. H.To engage the affections of some generous girl, who will be content to take me as Mr. H.BELVIL Mr. H.?MR. H.Yes, that is the name I go by here; you know one likes to be as near the truth as po
- 232 SECOND GENTLEMAN Phoo! that is the charm, Who is he? and What is he? and What is his name?--The man with the great nose on his face never excited more of the gaping pa.s.sion of wonderment in the dames of Strasburg, than this new-comer with the single let
- 231 MR. H.You have paid him?LANDLORD There is the receipt, Sir, only not quite filled up, no name, only blank--"Blank, Dr. to Zekiel Spanish for one pair of best hessians."Now, Sir, he wishes to know what name he shall put in, who he shall say "
- 230 _A mischief, And a nine-fold-withering curse: For that shall come to thee that will undo thee, Both all that thou fearest and worse_.So saying, she departed, Leaving Sir Francis like a man, beneath Whose feet a scaffolding was suddenly falling; So he desc
- 229 (_John is discovered kneeling.--Margaret standing over him_.) JOHN (_rises_) I cannot bear To see you waste that youth and excellent beauty, ('Tis now the golden time of the day with you,) In tending such a broken wretch as I am.MARGARET John will br
- 228 SCENE.--_Woodvil Hall_.SANDFORD. MARGARET.(_As from a Journey_.) SANDFORD The violence of the sudden mischance hath so wrought in him, who by nature is allied to nothing less than a self-debasing humour of dejection, that I have never seen any thing more
- 227 LOVEL (_drawing_) Then self-defence plead my excuse.Have at you, sir. (_They fight_.) JOHN Stay, sir.I hope you have made your will.If not, 'tis no great matter.A broken cavalier has seldom much He can bequeath: an old worn peruke, A snuff-box with a
- 226 THIRD GENTLEMAN There is reason in what he says.SECOND GENTLEMAN Charge on then, bottle in hand. There's husbandry in that.(_They go out, singing. Only Level remains, who observes Woodvil_.) JOHN (_still talking to himself_) This Lovel here's of
- 225 JOHN He hath his stoopings and reposes; but his proper element is the sky, and in the suburbs of the empyrean.THIRD GENTLEMAN Is your wine-intellectual so exquisite? henceforth, I, a man of plain conceit, will, in all humility, content my mind with canari
- 224 MARGARET Free liberty of Sherwood, And leave to take her lot with you in the forest.SIR WALTER A scant pet.i.tion, Margaret, but take it, Seal'd with an old man's tears.-- Rise, daughter of Sir Rowland.(_Addresses them both._) O you most worthy,
- 223 Then why not I? What's Charles to me, or Oliver, But as my own advancement hangs on one of them?I to myself am chief.--I know, Some shallow mouths cry out, that I am smit With the gauds and shew of state, the point of place, And trick of precedence,
- 222 "When Love grows cold, and indifference has usurped upon old Esteem, it is no marvel if the world begin to account _that_ dependence, which hitherto has been esteemed honorable shelter. The course I have taken (in leaving this house, not easily wroug
- 221 ALL O! monstrous!PETER Fellow servants, a thought strikes me.--Do we, or do we not, come under the penalties of the treason-act, by reason of our being privy to this man's concealment.ALL Truly a sad consideration._To them enters Sandford suddenly._
- 220 PETER Thank you, Francis. And heres to thee. (_Drinks._) MARTIN I shall be fuddled anon. DANIEL And drunkenness I hold to be a very despicable vice. ALL O! a shocking vice. (_They drink round._) PETER In as much as it taketh away the understanding. DANIEL
- 219 JOHN WOODVIL A TRAGEDY (1798-1802. _Text of_ 1818) CHARACTERS SIR WALTER WOODVIL. JOHN. } SIMON. } _his sons._ LOVEL. } GRAY. } _Pretended friends of John._ SANDFORD. _Sir Walters old steward._ MARGARET. _Orphan ward of Sir Walter._ FOUR GENTLEMEN. _Johns
- 218 _Gosling_. b.o.o.by, cease!I mean a Play._Sampson_. Oh!_Gosling_. And to crown my joys, 'Twas acted-- _Sampson_. Well, and how-- _Gosling_. It made a noise, A kind of mingled--(_as if musing_)._Sampson_. Aye, describe it, try._Gosling_. Like--Were yo
- 217 Art. IV."Whereas their Lords Commissioners (the church) Do strictly authorise the right of search: As always practis'd--you're to understand By these what articles are contraband; Guns, mortars, pistols, halberts, swords, pikes, lances, Bal
- 216 But the heat, and the press, and the noise, and the din, Were so great, that, howe'er unwilling, Our Reporter no longer was able to stay, But came in his own defence away, And left the Bride quadrilling.PROLOGUES AND EPILOGUES EPILOGUE TO G.o.dWIN�
- 215 XI "Your crown and your sceptre I like full well, They tempt a poor maiden's pride, Sir; But your lands and possessions--excuse if I'm rude-- Are too far in a Northerly lat.i.tude For me to become your Bride, Sir.XII "In that aguish cl
- 214 XXIV "But how do you know the fair maid's mind?"-- Quoth he, "Her loss was but recent; And I could not speak _my_ mind you know, Just when I was fetching her father below-- It would have been hardly decent.XXV "But a leer from her
- 213 VI Her bones peep'd through a rhinoceros' skin, Like a mummy's through its cerement; But she had a mother's heart, and guess'd What pinch'd her son; whom she thus address'd In terms that bespoke endearment.VII "What
- 212 MARMOR LOQUITUR He lies a Volunteer so fine, Who died of a decline, As you or I, may do one day; Reader, think of this, I pray; And I humbly hope you'll drop a tear For my poor Royal Volunteer.He was as brave as brave could be, n.o.body was so brave
- 211 _Suggested by a Sight of Waltham Cross_ (1827) Time-mouldering CROSSES, gemm'd with imagery Of costliest work, and Gothic tracery, Point still the spots, to hallow'd wedlock dear, Where rested on its solemn way the bier, That bore the bones of E
- 210 SONNET _St. Crispin to Mr. Gifford_ (1819) All unadvised, and in an evil hour, Lured by aspiring thoughts, my son, you daft The lowly labours of the Gentle Craft For learned toils, which blood and spirits sour.All things, dear pledge, are not in all men&#
- 209 POLITICAL AND OTHER EPIGRAMS TO SIR JAMES MACKINTOSH (1801) Though thou'rt like Judas, an apostate black, In the resemblance one thing thou dost lack: When he had gotten his ill-purchased pelf, He went away, and wisely hanged himself.This thou may�
- 208 TO MRS. SARAH ROBINSON Soul-breathing verse, thy gentlest guise put on And greet the honor'd name of Robinson.Rome in her throng'd and stranger-crowded streets, And palaces, where pilgrim _pilgrim_ meets, Holds not, respected Sarah, one that can
- 207 For it _Wisdom_ means, which pa.s.ses Rubies, pearls, or golden ma.s.ses.Ever try that Name to merit; Never quit what you inherit, Duly from your Father's spirit.TO R[OTHA] Q[UILLINAN]_Acrostic_ ROTHA, how in numbers light, Ought I to express thee?Ta
- 206 ADDITIONAL ALb.u.m VERSES AND ACROSTICS WHAT IS AN ALb.u.m?'Tis a Book kept by modern Young Ladies for show, Of which their plain grandmothers nothing did know.'Tis a medley of sc.r.a.ps, fine verse, and fine prose, And some things not very like
- 205 _From the Latin of Palingenius, in the Zodiacus Vitae_ (1832) But now time warns (my mission at an end) That to Jove's starry court I re-ascend; From whose high battlements I take delight To scan your earth, diminish'd to the sight, Pendant, and
- 204 TO EMMA, LEARNING LATIN, AND DESPONDING (_By Mary Lamb_. ? 1827) Droop not, dear Emma, dry those falling tears, And call up smiles into thy pallid face, Pallid and care-worn with thy arduous race: In few brief months thou hast done the work of years.To yo
- 203 An Ape is but a trivial beast, Men count it light and vain; But I would let them have their thoughts, To have my Ape again.To love a beast in any sort, Is no great sign of grace; But I have loved a flouting Ape's 'Bove any lady's face.I hav
- 202 O lift with reverent hand that tarnish'd flower, That 'shrines beneath her modest canopy Memorials dear to Romish piety; Dim specks, rude shapes, of Saints! in fervent hour The work perchance of some meek devotee, Who, poor in worldly treasures
- 201 An Alb.u.m is a Banquet: from the store, In his intelligential Orchard growing, Your Sire might heap your board to overflowing; One shaking of the Tree--'twould ask no more To set a Salad forth, more rich than that Which Evelyn[12] in his princely co
- 200 Incompetent my song to raise To its just height thy praise, Great Mill!That by thy motion proper (No thanks to wind, or sail, or working rill) Grinding that stubborn corn, the Human will, Turn'st out men's consciences, That were begrimed before,
- 199 _Of the Parish of Saint Margaret's, Westminster, Watchman_ For much good-natured verse received from thee, A loving verse take in return from me."Good morrow to my masters," is your cry; And to our David "twice as good," say I.Not
- 198 Ne'er by Christians be forgot-- Envied be--this Martyr's lot._Lawton_, who these _names_ combinest, Aim to emulate their praises; Women were they, yet divinest Truths they taught; and story raises O'er their mouldering bones a Tomb, Not to
- 197 THE GIPSY'S MALISON (1829) "Suck, baby, suck, mothers love grows by giving, Drain the sweet founts that only thrive by wasting; Black manhood comes, when riotous guilty living Hands thee the cup that shall be death in tasting."Kiss, baby, k
- 196 Vex not, maidens, nor regret Thus to part with Margaret.Charms like your's can never stay Long within doors; and one day You'll be going.TO A YOUNG FRIEND _On Her Twenty-First Birth-Day_ Crown me a cheerful goblet, while I pray A blessing on thy
- 195 ANGEL HELP[5](1827) This rare tablet doth include Poverty with Sanct.i.tude.Past midnight this poor Maid hath spun, And yet the work is not half done, Which must supply from earning scant A feeble bed-rid parent's want.Her sleep-charged eyes exemptio
- 194 IN THE ALb.u.m OF MISS ------ I Such goodness in your face doth s.h.i.+ne, With modest look, without design, That I despair, poor pen of mine Can e'er express it.To give it words I feebly try; My spirits fail me to supply Befitting language for'
- 193 THE FAMILY NAME What reason first imposed thee, gentle name, Name that my father bore, and his sire's sire, Without reproach? we trace our stream no higher; And I, a childless man, may end the same.Perchance some shepherd on Lincolnian plains, In man
- 192 LINES _Suggested by a Picture of Two Females by Lionardo da Vinci._ (_By Mary Lamb_. 1804) The Lady Blanch, regardless of all her lovers' fears, To the Urs'line convent hastens, and long the Abbess hears."O Blanch, my child, repent ye of th
- 191 A FAREWELL TO TOBACCO (1805) May the Babylonish curse Strait confound my stammering verse, If I can a pa.s.sage see In this word-perplexity, Or a fit expression find, Or a language to my mind, (Still the phrase is wide or scant) To take leave of thee, GRE
- 190 In a costly palace, when the brave gallants dine, They have store of good venison, with old canary wine, With singing and music to heighten the cheer; Coa.r.s.e bits, with grudging, are the pauper's best fare.In a costly palace Youth is still carest
- 189 Ghost-like, I paced round the haunts of my childhood.Earth seemed a desart I was bound to traverse, Seeking to find the old familiar faces.Friend of my bosom, thou more than a brother, Why wert not thou born in my father's dwelling?So might we talk o
- 188 TO CHARLES LLOYD A stranger, and alone, I past those scenes We past so late together; and my heart Felt something like desertion, when I look'd Around me, and the well-known voice of friend Was absent, and the cordial look was there No more to smile
- 187 SONNET _(Summer, 1795)_ The Lord of Life shakes off his drowsihed, And 'gins to sprinkle on the earth below Those rays that from his shaken locks do flow; Meantime, by truant love of rambling led, I turn my back on thy detested walls, Proud City! and
- 186 When her son, her Douglas died, To the steep rock's fearful side Fast the frantic Mother hied-- O'er her blooming warrior dead Many a tear did Scotland shed, And shrieks of long and loud lament From her Grampian hills she sent.Like one awakening
- 185 The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb IV.by Charles and Mary Lamb.INTRODUCTION The earliest poem in this volume bears the date 1794, when Lamb was nineteen, the latest 1834, the year of his death; so that it covers an even longer period of his life than Vol.
- 184 Reprinted by Lamb, with Mary Lambs name to it, in the _Works_, 1818, the text of which is here given. This was the last poem in _Poetry for Children_. Page 488, _Summer Friends_. By Mary Lamb. This poem was sent by Robert Lloyd to his wife in April, 1809,
- 183 Page 462. _Charity_. (?) Mary Lamb. Page 463. _My Birth-day_. (?) Mary Lamb. Page 464. _The Beasts in the Tower_. (?) Charles Lamb. There is a hint of Blakes "Tiger, tiger burning bright" (which Lamb so greatly admired) in-- That cat-like beast
- 182 (?) Mary Lamb.Page 435. _The Orange_.(?) Charles Lamb.Page 436. _The Young Letter-writer_.(?) Mary Lamb.Page 437. _The Three Friends_.By Charles Lamb. Reprinted by him in his _Works_, 1818, with the text now given, which differs very slightly from that of
- 181 Page 413. _The Boy and Snake_.(?) Mary Lamb. This poem was the subject of the frontispiece to Vol. I. of the original edition. According to a letter from Jean D.Montgomery printed in _The County Gentleman_ in August, 1907, there is extant in Kirkcudbright
- 180 Page 384. X.--_Arabella Hardy_. "The Sea Voyage."By Charles Lamb. Nothing else that Lamb wrote is quite so far from the ordinary run of his thoughts; and nothing has, I think, more charm.Page 389. The King and Queen of Hearts This is probably th
- 179 Page 316. MRS. LEICESTER'S SCHOOL.This charming little book was published by Mrs. G.o.dwin at the end of 1808, dated 1809, with no author's name attached. Besides, however, ample internal evidence as to its authors.h.i.+p, there are many referen
- 178 "_Our love to all_."I had almost forgot, My part of the Preface begins in the middle of a sentence, in last but one page, after a colon, thus:-- ":--_which if they be happily so done_, &c. (see page 2, line 7 from foot).The former part hath
- 177 PRINCE "My Nose, Ma'am!"FAIRY "No offence.-- The King your Father was a man of sense, A handsome man (but lived not to be old) And had a Nose cast in the common mould.Ev'n I myself, that now with age am grey, Was thought to have s
- 176 PRINCE DORUS OR FLATTERY PUT OUT OF COUNTENANCE A POETICAL VERSION OF AN ANCIENT TALK In days of yore, as Ancient Stories tell, A King in love with a great Princess fell.Long at her feet submiss the Monarch sigh'd, While she with stern repulse his su
- 175 For am not I a Philistine?What strength may be compar'd to mine?"Chuse ye a man of greatest might: And if he conquer me in fight, Then we will all servants be, King of Israel, unto thee.But if I prove the victor, then Shall Saul and all his arme
- 174 Said he to Orme, "This African It seems is not by you approv'd; I'll find a way, young Englishman, To have this prejudice remov'd."Nearer acquaintance possibly May make you tolerate his hue; At least 'tis my intent to try Wha
- 173 To this the bird seven words did say: "Why not do it, Sir, to-day?"HOME DELIGHTS To operas and b.a.l.l.s my cousins take me, And fond of plays my new-made friend would make me.In summer season, when the days are fair, In my G.o.dmother's co
- 172 That lordly creature next to him A Lion is. Survey each limb.Observe the texture of his claws, The ma.s.sy thickness of those jaws; His mane that sweeps the ground in length, Like Samson's locks, betok'ning strength.In force and swiftness he exc
- 171 Her handmaids they are not a few: Sincerity that's ever true, And Prompt Obedience always new, Urbanity that ever smiles, And Frankness that ne'er useth wiles, And Friendliness that ne'er beguiles, And Firmness that is always ready To make
- 170 In her juvenile anger, wherever she found, She pluck'd, and she pull'd, and she tore; The poor pa.s.sive suff'rers bestrew'd all the ground; Not a weed of them all she forbore.At length 'twas her chance on some nettles to light (T
- 169 THE MEN AND WOMEN, AND THE MONKEYS A FABLE When beasts by words their meanings could declare, Some well-drest men and women did repair To gaze upon two monkeys at a fair: And one who was the spokesman in the place Said, in their count'nance you might
- 168 You pray that your "trespa.s.ses may be forgiven, As you forgive those that are done unto you;"Before this you say to the G.o.d that's in heaven, Consider the words which you speak. Are they true?If any one has in the past time offended Us
- 167 Now dust and sun does every one Most terribly annoy; Complaints begun, soon every one Elbows his neighbour boy.Not now the joyous laugh goes round, We shout not now huzzah; A sadder group may not be found Than we returning are.THE ORANGE The month was Jun
- 166 Here's Mamma's work-bag, now I will engage To whisk this little bag into a cage; And now, my pretty Parrot, get you in it, Another change I'll shew you in a minute.""O fie, you naughty child, what have you done?There never was so
- 165 If Nature, who allots our cup, Than her has made you stronger, wiser; It is that you, as you grow up, Should be her champion, her adviser.It is the law that Hand intends, Which fram'd diversity of s.e.x; The man the woman still defends, The manly boy
- 164 "I said, 'Be friends with me, dear Will;'We quarrell'd, Sir, at the church door,-- Though he cried, 'Hush, don't speak, be still,'Yet I repeated these words o'er "Sev'n or eight times, I have no doubt.But
- 163 Smiling river, smiling river, On thy bosom sun-beams play; Though they're fleeting and retreating, Thou hast more deceit than they.In thy channel, in thy channel, Choak'd with ooze and grav'lly stones, Deep immersed and unhea.r.s.ed, Lies y
- 162 REPENTANCE AND RECONCILIATION JANE Mamma is displeased and looks very grave, And I own, brother, I was to blame Just now when I told her I wanted to have, Like Miss Lydia, a very fine _name_.'Twas foolish, for, Robert, Jane sounds very well, When mam
- 161 BROTHER Well, soon (I say) I'll let it loose; But, sister, you talk like a goose, There's no soul in a fly.SISTER It has a form and fibres fine, Were temper'd by the hand divine Who dwells beyond the sky.Look, brother, you have hurt its win
- 160 The King lays on his blows so stout, The Tarts for fear come tumbling out O King! be merciful as just, You'll beat poor Pambo into dust [Ill.u.s.tration: _The Knave of Hearts_]How like he looks to a dog that begs In abject sort upon two legs!Good Mr.