The Merry-Thought: or the Glass-Window and Bog-House Miscellany. Parts 2, 3 and 4 — John Shaqi
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 love dear _Betty_, and _Betty_ loves me;
And it shall not be long before marry’d we be.
_Underwritten._
If you must make a Rhime upon your Lass,
I’ll make another----Rhimer kiss my A - se.
_Boar’s-Head, Smithfield._
D - n their Doublets, and confound their Breeches,
There’s none besh - t the Wall but Sons of B - ches.
May the _French_ P - - x, and the D - - vil take ’em all,
That besh - t their Fingers, and wipe them on the Wall.
_Lambeth-Wells Bog-House._
_Supposed to be wrote by one who had a great Antipathy to Tobacco._
This is a Place that’s very fitting,
To p - - ss, and f - - rt, to smoke, and sh - - t in.
_From a Window in a Great House in Lincoln’s-Inn-Fields._
A good Wife is like a Turtle that bills and cooes, and turns up her
T----l to her Husband.
_Kings-Head, Beaconsfield._
In Spring the Fields, in Autumn Hills, I love;
At Morn the Plains, at Noon the shady Grove;
But _Delia_ always, forc’d from _Delia_’s Sight,
Nor Fields, nor Hills, nor Plains, nor Groves delight.
_At the same Place, 1731._
Love in Fashion, is Copulation.
_Le H----p._
_At the same Place._
The Brave and Wise would never hug
The chearful Bottle and the Jug,
Were not good Liquor in its Season,
An useful Spur to human Reason.
_Probatum est_, W. T.
_At Rumford, in a Window._
There’s Nothing sure can vex a Woman more
Than to hear the Feats of Love, and be Threescore.
_Written on a Looking-Glass, in the Rue Boucharie, Paris._
Le Mond est plein de fous, & qui n’en veut point voir,
Doit demeurer tout seul, & casser son meroir.
The World is full of Fools and Asses,
To see them not---- retire and break your Glasses.
_Oxon, in a Bog-House._
With such violent Rage,
Sir _John_ did engage
With the Damsel which he laid his Leg on,
That his Squire, who stood near,
Swore it look’d like the Spear
Of St. _George_ in the Mouth of the Dragon.
_On a Drinking-Glass._
Guard well your Credit, for ’tis quickly gone:
’Tis gain’d by many Actions, lost by one.
_At York, in a Window._
When Mr. _H----_ was chosen Mayor, }
We thought our Peace stood very fair, }
And hollow’d when he took the Chair. }
But see how Mortals may prove civil, }
They change their State from Good to Evil: }
Set a Beggar on Horseback, he’ll ride to the Devil. }
And so it prov’d.
_From a Window in Yorkshire._
Sir ---- was chosen our Recorder,
Hoping he’d put our Wrongs in Order:
But, in Truth, the young Gentleman prov’d such a Rake,
That he kiss’d all our Wives, and made all our Heads ake.
_Uxbridge, the Crown._
_Puns_ have two evil Ends:
Sometimes they gain us Foes,
Sometimes they make us lose
our Friends.
_At Epping, in a Window._
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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