The Merry-Thought: or the Glass-Window and Bog-House Miscellany. Part 1Hurlothrumbo
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The Merry-Thought: or the Glass-Window and Bog-House Miscellany. Part 1
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English poetry -- 18th century; Graffiti -- England -- History -- 18th century
_Madam Catherine Cadiere's Case opened, against Father Girard's powerful
Injunction. In a Window at Maidenhead._
My dearest _Kitty_, says the _Fryar_, }
Give me a holy Kiss, and I'll retire, }
Which Kiss set all his Heart on Fire. }
He had no Rest that Night, but often cry'd, }
Z - - - nds, my dear _Kitty_ shall be occupy'd; }
I'll lay aside my Rank, I will not be deny'd. }
To-morrow I'll try her,
Said the Fryar;
And so he went to her,
And did undoe her,
By making her cry out for Mercy;
And then he kiss'd her _Narsey-Parsey_.
_L. F._ 1731.
_Underwritten._
Dear _Kitty_ could never have suffered Disgrace, }
If whilst the old Fryar was kissing her A - - - se, }
She'd pull'd up her Spirits, and sh - - t in his Face. }
_From an hundred Windows._
That which frets a Woman most,
Is when her Expectation's crost.
_Sun behind the Exchange._
_To Mr. _D-----b_, on his being very hot upon Mrs. _N. S._ _1714_._
When the Devil would commit a Rape.
He took upon him _Cupid_'s Shape:
When he the Fair-One met, at least,
They kiss'd and hugg'd, or hugg'd and kiss'd;
But she in amorous Desire,
Thought she had _Cupid_'s Dart,
But got Hell Fire,
And found the Smart.
_N. B._ And then the Surgeon was sent for.
_From the White-Hart at Acton._
_Kitty_ the strangest Girl in Life,
For any one to make a Wife;
Her Constitution's cold, with warm Desire,
She kisses just like Ice and Fire.
_At the Bear-Inn, Spinham-Land._
E V A N K it is a Word of Fame,
Spell it backwards, 'tis your Name.
_S. T._ 1710.
Find it out if 'tis your Name,
_R. M._
_At the Cranes, Edgeworth._
As I walk'd by myself,
I said to myself.
And myself said again to me:
Look to thyself,
Take Care of thyself,
For no Body cares for thee.
Then I myself
Thus answer'd myself,
With the self-same Repartee:
Look to thyself,
Or look not to thyself,
'Tis the self-same Thing to me.
_John Careless._
_On a Frier who cuckol'd a Dyer at Roan in France; and the Dyer's
Revenge in dying him _Blue_._
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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