[Tea-Table Miscellany Contents]
HE.
WHere oxen do low,
And apple trees grow;
Where corn is sown,
And grass is mown;
Fate give me for life a place.
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SHE.
Where hay’s well cock’d,
And udders are stroak’d;
Where duck and drake
Cry, quack, quack, quack;
Where turkeys lay eggs,
And swine suckle pigs;
Oh! there I would pass my days.
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ΗΕ.
On nonght we will feed,
But what we can breed:
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SHE.
And wear on our backs
The wool of our flocks;
And tho’ linnen feel
Rough, spun from the wheel,
‘Tis cleanly tho’ coarse it comes.
–
HE.
Town follys and cullys,
And mollys and dollys,
For ever adieu, and for ever:
–
SHE.
And beaux, that in boxes
Lye smugg’ling their doxies,
With wigs that hang down to their bums.
–
HE.
Good b’uye to the mall
The park and canal,
St. James’s square,
And flaunters there,
The gaming house too,
Where high dice and low
Are manag’d by all degrees.
–
SHE.
Adieu to the knight
Was bubled last night,
That keeps a blowze,
And beats his spouse,
And then in great haste,
To pay what he’as lost,
Sends home to cut down his trees.
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НЕ.
And well fare the lad
Improves ev’ry clod,
Who ne’er sets his hand
To bill or to bond:
–
SHE.
Nor barters his flocks,
For wine or the pox,
To chouse him of half his days.
–
HE.
But fishing and fowling,
And hunting and bowling,
His pastime is ever and ever.
–
SHE.
Whose lips, when ye buss ‘em,
Smell like the bean blossom;
Oh! he it’s shall have my praise.
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НЕ.
To taverns, where goes
Sow’r apples and floes,
A long adieu!
And farewell too
The house of the great,
Whose cook has no meat,
And butler can’t quench my thirst.
–
SHE.
Farewell to the change,
Where rantipoles range;
Farewell cold tea,
And rattasie,
Hide-park, where pride
In coaches ride,
Altho’ they be choak’d with dust.
–
HE.
Farewell the law gown,
The plague of the town,
And foes of the crown,
That shou’d be run down:
–
SHE.
With city jack-daws,
That make staple laws,
To measure by yards and ells.
–
HE.
Stock-jobbers and swobbers,
And packers and tackers,
For ever adieu, and for ever:
We know what you’re doing;
And home we are going;
And so you may ring your bells.
