The Court of Cupid By the Author of the Meretriciad [i.e. Edward Thompson]. Containing the Eighth Edition of the Meretriciad, with great Additions. In Two Volumes |
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The BEE and POLLY. 1764.
Pretty Polly ran to see,
Pretty Chicks the hen had hatch'd;
As she went a saucy Bee,
Polly's honey'd beauties watch'd.
Pretty Chicks the hen had hatch'd;
As she went a saucy Bee,
Polly's honey'd beauties watch'd.
“Gracious heart! see where it flies?
Down poor pretty Polly drop'd,
Screaming! it has stung my thighs,
But where has the villain hop'd?”
Down poor pretty Polly drop'd,
Screaming! it has stung my thighs,
But where has the villain hop'd?”
She call'd catch it, sob'd and wept;
I shall never this survive!
I look'd, but found the Bee had crept,
Into little Cupid's hive.
I shall never this survive!
I look'd, but found the Bee had crept,
Into little Cupid's hive.
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