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That was so sharp and poignant, is

squeezed out;

While the poor rind, although as

sour as ever,

And drown it not, like Egypt's royal harlot,

Dissolving her rich pearl in the brimm'd wine-cup.

Must season soon the draff we give 'These are the arts, Lothario, which

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Clothes to the broker, income to the Repented and reproach'd, and then

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Rove not from pole to pole-the man

lives here

Whose razor's only equall'd by his beer;

And where, in either sense, the cockney-put

May, if he pleases, get confounded cut. For the Sign of an Alehouse kept by a Barber.

Chap. XXI.

CHANCE will not do the work, Chance sends the breeze;

But if the pilot slumber at the helm, The very wind that wafts us towards the port

Unlooses all our favourite ties on earth;
And well if they are such as may be
answer'd

In yonder world, where all is judged
of truly.
Old Play.

Chap. xxv.

GIVE US good voyage, gentle stream;

we stun not

Thy sober ear with sounds of revelry, Wake not the slumbering echoes of thy banks

With voice of flute and horn; we do but seek

On the broad pathway of thy swelling bosom

May dash us on the shelves. The To glide in silent safety.

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THIS is the time: Heaven's maiden- Yonder lie danger, shame, and

punishment.

sentinel Hath quitted her high watch; the lesser Most welcome danger then-nay, let

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Are paling one by one; give me the Though spoke with swelling heart

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DEATH finds us 'mid our playthings- How fares the man on whom good

snatches us,

men would look

As a cross nurse might do a wayward With eyes where scorn and censure child,

From all our toys and baubles. His rough call

combated,

But that kind Christian love hath

taught the lesson-

That they who merit most contempt Blood shall flow freely, but it shall be

and hate,

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Here's a red stream beneath this coarse HERE's neither want of appetites nor

mouths;

blue doublet, That warms the heart as kindly as if Pray Heaven we be not scant of meat

drawn

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WHY then, we will have bellowing of THIS is a love meeting! See the maiden

beeves,

mourns,

Broaching of barrels, brandishing of And the sad suitor bends his looks on

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