The three tours of Doctor Syntax In search of 1. The picturesque, 2. Of consolation, 3. Of a wife. The text complete. [By William Combe] With four illustrations |
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Ned Easy and the Doctor sat With pipe in hand in usual state;
Thoughtless one look'd, the other wise,
With sleepy or with twinkling eyes,
While Ma'am the Aromatics blended,
To gain the scent which she intended,
As she would not her taste disturb With plain Virginia's common herb:
She thought it would be vulgar joking,
T'acquire its perfume by her smoking.
—An iv'ry pipe with silver tip She took within her rosy lip,
And, as she whiff'd her sweet lips moving
Set the exhaling vapour roving:
While o'er her brow it seem'd to wander
In a slow, curling, calm meander,
And 'mid the branches of the tree, Display'd a misty canopy.
Thoughtless one look'd, the other wise,
With sleepy or with twinkling eyes,
While Ma'am the Aromatics blended,
To gain the scent which she intended,
As she would not her taste disturb With plain Virginia's common herb:
She thought it would be vulgar joking,
T'acquire its perfume by her smoking.
—An iv'ry pipe with silver tip She took within her rosy lip,
And, as she whiff'd her sweet lips moving
Set the exhaling vapour roving:
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In a slow, curling, calm meander,
And 'mid the branches of the tree, Display'd a misty canopy.
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