Thy locks, I trow, fair maid, Don't never want this aid: Wherefore thy powder spare, And only _comb_ thy hair.
_To Sir_ JOSEPH MAWBEY, _proposing a Party to go a-fishing for White Bait._
Worthy SIR JOE, we all are wishing, You'd come with us a-White-Bait-fishing.
_On seeing a Ladybird fly off_ CELIA'_s Neck, after having perched on it for many minutes._
I thought (God bless my soul!) Yon ladybird her mole-- I thought--but devil take the thing, It proved my error--took to wing--
Oh! how charming is New Milk! Sweet as sugar--soft as silk!
_Familiar Verses, addressed to two Young Gentlemen at the_ Hounslow Academy.
Take notice, roguelings, I prohibit Your walking underneath yon gibbet: Have you not heard, my little ones, Of _Raw Head and Bloody Bones?_ How do you know, but that there fellow, May step down quick, and you up swallow?
_To_ DELIA, _on seeing_ TWO CATS _playing together._
See, DELY, DELY, charming fair, How Pusseys play upon that chair; Then, DELY, change thy name to WRAY, And thou and I will likewise play.
Says I, one day, unto my wife, I never saw in all my life Such a blade-bone. Why so, my dear? Says she. The matter's very clear, Says I; for on it there's no meat, For any body for to eat. Indeed, my dear, says she, 'tis true, } But wonder not, for, you know, you } Can't eat your cake and have it too. }
I buy my coals by pecks, that we May have them fresh and fresh, d'ye see.
_To my very learned and facetious friend_, S. ESTWICK, ESQ. M.P. _and_ LL.D. _on his saying to me_, "What the D---l noise was that?"
Good Dr. ESTWICK, you do seek To know what makes my shoe-soles creak? They make a noise when they are dry; And so do you, and so do I. C. W.
DURING THE FIRST WEEK OF THE NEW PARLIAMENT.
_May_ 20. Went down to the House--sworn in--odd faces--asked PEARSON who the new people were--he seemed cross at my asking him, and did not know--I took occasion to inspect the water-closets.
N.B. To tell ROSE, that I found three cocks out of repair--didn't know what to do--left my name at the DUKE OF QUEENSBERRY's--dined at WHITE's--the pease tough--Lord APSLEY thought they ought to be boiled in steam--VILLIERS very _warm_ in favour of _hot water_--PITT for the new mode--and much talk of _taking the sense_ of the _club_--but happily I prevented matters going to extremity.