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The Wiccamical Chaplet

a selection of original poetry; comprising smaller poems, serious and comic; classical trifles; sonnets; inscriptions and epitaphs; songs and ballads; mock-heroics, epigrams, fragments, &c. &c. Edited by George Huddesford
  
  

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EPIGRAM,

To the Landlord of the Orkney Arms, at Maiden-head, near Bray.

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The attribution of this poem is questionable.

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Written some Years ago.

I wonder, Friend March, you, who live so near Bray,
Should not set up the sign of the Vicar:
Tho' it might be an odd one, you cannot but say
It must needs be a sign of good liquor!

ANSWER.

Should I set up the sign of the Vicar, I doubt
My drift might be misunderstood:
Who'd believe that the Vicar would dangle without,
If within doors the liquor was good?