A Miscellany of Poems consisting of Original Poems, Translations, Pastorals in the Cumberland Dialect, Familiar Epistles, Fables, Songs, and Epigrams, by the late Reverend Josiah Relph ... With a Preface and a Glossary |
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EPISTLE to Mr. C---r at P---th.
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EPISTLE to Mr. C---r at P---th.
Well, honest gossip, are you gaily?
What uncouths from festum lustrale?
Was Commother a canny lass?
I hope you let no duties pass.
The dinner too—what doings there?
Come, give us in a bill of fare:
I'ill warrant as sumptuous it has been as
Famed supper of Nasidienus,
'Bout which friend Horace and another
(What is't they call him?) make such pother.
What uncouths from festum lustrale?
Was Commother a canny lass?
I hope you let no duties pass.
The dinner too—what doings there?
Come, give us in a bill of fare:
I'ill warrant as sumptuous it has been as
Famed supper of Nasidienus,
'Bout which friend Horace and another
(What is't they call him?) make such pother.
In equal lays then be it dressed;
Say, how was seated every guest,
What dainty dishes graced the board,
What hearty welcomes look'd its Lord,
How fresh and brisk and good the beer,
And what strong ale brought up the rear.
Say, how was seated every guest,
What dainty dishes graced the board,
What hearty welcomes look'd its Lord,
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And what strong ale brought up the rear.
Your poëm thus drawn to a stop,
Clap on a kind address at top:
At bottom protestation fervent;
Then close and send it to your servant.—
Clap on a kind address at top:
At bottom protestation fervent;
Then close and send it to your servant.—
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