[Tea-Table Miscellany Contents]
A Trifling song ye shall hear,
Begun with a trifle and ended;
All trifling people draw near,
And I shall be nobly attended.
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Were it not for trifles a few,
That lately came into the play,
The men would want something to do,
The women want something to say.
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What makes men trifle in dressing?
Because the ladies, they know,
Admire, by often caressing
That eminent trifle, a beau.
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When the lover his moments has trified,
The trifle of trifles to gain,
No sooner the virgin is rifled,
But a trifle shall part them again.
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What mortal wou’d ever be able,
At Whyte’s half a moment to fit?
Or who is’t cou’d bear a tea-table,
Without talking trifles for wit?
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The court is from trifles secure,
Gold keys are no trifes we see;
White rods are no trifles I’m sure,
Whatever their bearers may be.
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But if you will go to the place,
Where trifles abundantly breed,
The levee will show you, his grace
Makes promises trifles indeed!
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A coach with fix footmen behind,
I count neither trifle nor sin;
But ye gods! how oft do we find
A scandalous trifle within?
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A flask of champaign people think it
A trifle, or something as bad;
But if you’ll contrive how to drink it,
You’ll find it no trifle by gad.
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A parson’s a trifle at sea,
A widow’s a trifle in sorrow,
A peace is a trifle to day,
To break it a trifle to morrow.
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A black coat a trifle may cloke,
Or to hide it the red may endeavour;
But if once the army is broke,
We shall have more trifles than ever.
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The stage is a trifle they say,
The reason pray carry along;
Because that at every new play,
The house they with trifles so throng.
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But with people’s malice to trifle,
And to set us all on a foot;
The author of this is a trifle,
And his song is a trifle to boot.
