The Merry-Thought: or the Glass-Window and Bog-House Miscellany. Part 1 — John Shaqi
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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
_Three-Pigeons, Brentford, upon a Drinking-Glass._
Dear charming lovely _Nancy L-- --r_,
Thou art my only Toast, I swear.
T. T. from _Coventry_, _Feb._ 13. 1716.
_On another at the same Place._
My dearest _Sukey Percivall_,
Is all my Toast, and that is all.
Captain _F----l_, _July_ 4. 1716.
_Red-Lion, at Southwell, in a Window._
_Clarinda_ lay here
With a young Cavalier;
With her Heart full of Fear,
For her Husband was near.
L. L. _Feb._ 2. 1728.
_Written under._
'Tis very true; for we saw _Rem-in-Re_ through the
Key-Hole.
S. M. }
J. M. } _Feb._ 3. 1728.
R. H, }
_Written under._
If the Husband had come,
And had seen his Wife's B - - m,
He'd a known by her Looks,
She'd been playing ----
At Hoy Gammer Cooks.
S. B. _March_ 3. 1728.
_Windsor, the White-Hart, in a Window._
Now is my latest Guinea chang'd,
And gone where it was used to range:
When that was broke, it broke my Heart;
For now for ever we must part,
Unless I boldly meet it on the Road,
And bid the Porter give it me, by G - d.
And so I'll do;
_Tom. Stout_
Will see it out, _Feb._ 2.
_Underwritten._
Win it and take it, says Captain _Hector_: I defy the bold Robber;
and I have an hundred Guineas that I shall travel with to-morrow.
_Feb._ 16.
_At the Cardinal's-Cap In Windsor, on a Window._
_J. F._ is fifteen, and so charming her Mien, }
Her Eyes are like Brilliants, her Looks are serene, }
And one Kiss from her Lips is worth ten from a Queen. }
_Tom. Fool_, 1726.
_At the same Place, on the Wall._
Never had Mortal greater Wit
Than I who ever wanted it;
But now my Wants have made me scrawl,
And rhyme and write the Devil and all.
_J. Forbes_, 1720.
_On a Summer-House near Farnham in Surrey._
I, C, U, B
Y Y for me.
J. S.
_The Reading of it is supposed to be, _viz.__
I see you be
Too wise for me.
_Star-Inn, Coventry._
Tell me where is Fancy bred? }
In the Heart, or in the Head? }
How begot, how nourished? }
_ANSWER_,
Had not _Celia_ come this Way,
My Heart would be my own this Day,
Fancy's engendered in the Eyes,
With gazing fed; and Fancy dies
In the same Cradle where it lies;
For she's a Wh-re, and I despise.
_R. L. 1710._
_At the Leg-Tavern, Fleet-Street. We suppose an Attempt to put the Lives
of Adam and Eve, and their Sons, into Verse._
Mr. _Adam_ he was, the first Man alive,
And he married a fine young Gentlewoman, call'd Mrs. _Eve_.
And Mr. _Adam_ and Mrs. _Eve_, between them twain
Got a pretty little Boy, called Master _Cain_.
_At the Catherine-Wheel at Henley._
_CLELIA's Epitaph, who was slander'd to Death._
Death, to vindicate her Wrongs,
Gives her Fame which never dies;
So the Life that died with Shame,
Lives in Death with glorious Fame.
_R. S._ _Oct. 17. 1708_.
_At the same Place._
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