Comic Tales and Lyrical Fancies including The Chessiad, a Mock-Heroic, in Five Cantos; and The Wreath of Love, in Four Cantos. By C. Dibdin, the Younger |
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EPIGRAM.
FROM THE FRENCH.
Two spendthrifts, sons of wealthy cits,Cramp'd by their sires in cash, one day
Stopp'd at a book-stall, being wits,
But nought there pleas'd 'em—by the way,
The vender knew them (as fame gathers);
“I've not the thing you want,” he cried;
“What is't we want?” the pair replied:
He—“An abridgment of the fathers.”
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