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POSTSCRIPT.
When you talk of this dance, I request it may be,
Not waltzing, but valtzing, pronounced with a v.
Not waltzing, but valtzing, pronounced with a v.
I suppose in the village you've nothing to do
But to drink your bohea, and play cribbage and loo.
By the bye—now I'm talking of tea, it is serious
To hear that this article's so deleterious;
You'll drink it with terror, I'm sure, when you know
That they make it with verdigris, copper, and sloe;
Slow poison our beverage surely must be,
With sloe juice in our wine, and sloe leaves in our tea.
But to drink your bohea, and play cribbage and loo.
By the bye—now I'm talking of tea, it is serious
To hear that this article's so deleterious;
You'll drink it with terror, I'm sure, when you know
That they make it with verdigris, copper, and sloe;
Slow poison our beverage surely must be,
With sloe juice in our wine, and sloe leaves in our tea.
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