The Merry-Thought: or the Glass-Window and Bog-House Miscellany. Parts 2, 3 and 4Hurlothrumbo
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The Merry-Thought: or the Glass-Window and Bog-House Miscellany. Parts 2, 3 and 4
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English poetry -- 18th century; Graffiti -- England -- History -- 18th century
I kiss’d her standing,
Kiss’d her lying,
Kiss’d her in Health,
And kiss’d her dying;
And when she mounts _the Skies_,
I’ll kiss her flying.
_Underwritten._
Well said, my Boy.
R. S.
_Witney, on a Window._
Debauch’d by _Henry Rig_,
Who gave me a Jigg,
But not one Grigg:
Howe’er he ran his Rigg.
But if ever I touch a Man again,
Unless in Matrimonial Chain,
I’ll rather suffer craving Pain,
I think; ----
---- Or take it once again.
For t’has set me a longing.
_Anne S----te._
_At the same Place._
Give me the Lass who has a Taste of Love;
She I will kiss luxuriously, by _Jove_;
But when I meet a Woman’s cold Embrace,
She baulks my Love; and she may kiss my A - - se.
_Oxon, Merton-College, on a Window._
Bright is my _Silvia_, when she’s drest;
When naked, cloath’d with wond’rous Charms:
Her Mein has oft my Heart opprest; }
Her Nakedness I have possest; }
And by the last I am distrest, }
By the Embraces of her Arms.
What can we Mortals say of Love?
Why? ’Tis the Pleasure of the Gods above:
But then, if Cl - ps proceed from Love,
How hot are all the Gods and Goddesses above!
A fine Reward, for Love for Love!
_Underwritten._
Avoid the Thunder-Cl - ps, and After-Cl - ps, says _Jove_.
_A young Lady, who hang’d herself, left the following Lines upon the
Table._
O Death! thou pleasing End of human Woe!
Thou Cure of Life, thou best of Things below!
May’st thou for ever shun the Coward Slave,
And thy soft Slumbers only ease the Brave!
_At the Bull-Inn, at Ware._
_On Miss J----s._
My Good or Ill in her alone is found,
And in that Thought all other Cares are drown’d.
_R. G----ll._
_Woodstock, in a Window._
Have you not in a Chimney seen
A sullen Faggot, wet and green,
How coyly it receives the Heat,
And at both Ends doth fume and sweat;
So fares it with the harmless Maid
When first upon her Back she’s laid.
But the kind experienc’d Dame
Cracks and rejoices in the Flame.
_Merton-College, Oxon, in a Window._
_A new Reading about the three Children in the Fiery Furnace. From the
Hebrew._
_Shadrack_, _Mashac_, and _Abednego_:
If _Shadrac_ had a Fever and Ague,
Then read in _English_,
_Shadrack may shake, and a bed may go._
R. F.
_Star, at Coventry._
What Lacing,
What Dressing,
What Moulding,
What Scolding,
What Painting,
What Fainting,
What Loving,
What Shoving,
What Cooing,
What Wooing,
What Crosses,
What Tosses,
What Actions,
What Fractions,
Before the Day was done.
_Salisbury, on a Window._
My Dear, like a Candle,
Lights every one’s Handle,
Yet loses no Bit of her own:
She will piss, and she’ll kiss
Until every one hiss,
And she better had stay’d at Home.
As she lost nothing by it, she may still remain a Light to the World.
_Anagram._
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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