Category: Poetry
ONCE on a time a Rev'rend Dean There lived, (and you know whom I mean,) Keen as a hawk each fault to seize, And _Swift_ to blame, as slow to please; Swell'd up with pride to height of tumour, Though all admired his dogged humour. But since our Pompey knew not how To speak, as...
ONCE on a time a Rev'rend Dean There lived, (and you know whom I mean,) Keen as a hawk each fault to seize, And _Swift_ to blame, as slow to please; Swell'd up with pride to hei...
2. Part 2I PITY you with all my heart! Your ladies play so mean a part, As now-a-days old clothes to barter For china, trinkets, scented water, Or use them up for chairs and screens, Les...
3. Part 3YOU'VE more importance than the Housemaid, As living where there's greater fuss made,-- A vastly more important clatter Than where they only keep the latter. You've nought to do...