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
Hurlothrumbo
English poetry -- 18th century; Graffiti -- England -- History -- 18th century
When _Phillis_ wore her brightest Face,
All Men rejoic’d in every Grace:
Her Patch, her Mein, her Forward Chin,
Cry’d, Gentlemen, Pray who’ll come in:
But now her Wrinkles are come on her, }
All Men who ever were upon her, }
Cry out, a Fart upon her Honour. }
_C. M._
_On a Wall, at a School in Norwich. In Dog Latin._
_J. Jackson_ currit _plenum sed_
Et læsit meum _magnum ad_.
_R. L._
_The English Translation, Word for Word._
_J. Jackson_ run _full-butt_,
And hurt my _Great Toe_.
_Written on the Door of two celebrated Milliners._
Within this Place
Lives _Minerva_ and _Grace_,
An Angel hangs out at the Door;
If you rise in the Night,
And call for a Light,
Then presently down comes a Wh----.
_Angel, at Marlborough. Upon Miss M - - k._
Her Step delivers those her Eyes enslave,
She looks to conquer, but she treads to save.
_From a Window at Kidderminster, Worcestershire._
_A Scrap of a Lady’s Life._
When first she wakes, a Sigh or two she fetches,
Then rubs her Eyes,----and Arms and Legs she stretches!
Oh! for a Husband, out she gently cries,
If he were here,----he would not let me rise;
But I must up, for Fear my Love should stay,
And we should be too late at the new Play.
Here, _Jenny_, reach my Slippers, bring the Pot;
Then out she jumps, and down she gives a Squat,
I think I need not tell you what to do,
And then she lets a merry Crack or two.
W. Overb - - ry.
_Bog-House at Ludlow._
Two pitiful Dukes at our Race did appear;
One bespoke him a Girl, the other new Geer,
And both went away without paying I hear,
For the Cheat lov’d his Money, and so did the Peer.
_Underwritten._
You Rogue, Taylor shan’t catch me, while your Legs they are cross’d.
Don’t cry, my dear Girl, since you have got more than you lost.
_FINIS._
The
MERRY-THOUGHT:
or, the
Glass-Window and Bog-House
MISCELLANY.
Taken from
The Original Manuscripts written in _Diamond_
by Persons of the first Rank and Figure in _Great
Britain_; relating to Love, Matrimony, Drunkenness,
Sobriety, Ranting, Scandal, Politicks, Gaming,
and many other Subjects, _Serious_ and _Comical_.
Faithfully Transcribed from the Drinking-Glasses and
Windows in the several noted _Taverns_, _Inns_, and
other _Publick Places_ in this Nation.
_Published by_ HURLO THRUMBO.
_Gameyorum, Wildum, Gorum,
Gameyorum a Gamy,
Flumarum a Flumarum,
A Rigdum Bollarum
A Rigdum, for a little Gamey._
Bethleham-Wall, Moor-Fields.
PART IV.
_LONDON_:
Printed for J. ROBERTS in _Warwick-Lane_; and Sold by
the Booksellers in Town and Country. [Price 6 _d._]
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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