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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“As to Miss Crotchet, I must try To work her into harmony.
The poet and historian tells Music, that by its powerful spells,
Has been a source of miracles;
And I may hope, without much stir, To work a miracle on her,
If such it be, by music's art To tickle an old maiden's heart.
—At all events I'll be as fine As doth become a sound divine;
New clad, new hatted and new wigg'd, With all becoming order rigg'd,
In that due figure to appear Which suits the views of this career,
Whose final hist'ry will display The colour of my future day.”
Thus did he reason, thus he thought,
Then into use his fiddle brought,
And all his tender, melting airs To win Miss Crotchet he prepares;
Then turns at times his curious eye To scientific botany,
Which might prepare him for his call And welcome kind at Tulip-Hall;
And thus by various means improve
The ways he plann'd of making love.
The poet and historian tells Music, that by its powerful spells,
Has been a source of miracles;
And I may hope, without much stir, To work a miracle on her,
If such it be, by music's art To tickle an old maiden's heart.
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New clad, new hatted and new wigg'd, With all becoming order rigg'd,
In that due figure to appear Which suits the views of this career,
Whose final hist'ry will display The colour of my future day.”
Thus did he reason, thus he thought,
Then into use his fiddle brought,
And all his tender, melting airs To win Miss Crotchet he prepares;
Then turns at times his curious eye To scientific botany,
Which might prepare him for his call And welcome kind at Tulip-Hall;
And thus by various means improve
The ways he plann'd of making love.
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