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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BY A YOUNG LADY,
With a Present of a Pair of Garters to an Old Gentleman.
Excuse your humble servant Rosey,
She knits, but cannot make a Poesy.
She knits, but cannot make a Poesy.
ANSWER.
As a Knitter thou art, my dear Girl, knit the KnotThat will last Thee for life; and good luck be thy lot!
May thy Choice not sit tight, nor too slack let him be,
But bind easy and soft, as thy Garters bind me.
'Tis true that my Verse both runs rough and comes hard,
Tho' the Subject invite e'en a crippled Old Bard:
Your wit and your work I admire, my dear Rosey,
Excuse me then Verse, I' excuse you your Posey,
And will love you and thank you in plain honest Prosey.
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