The Works of the Right Honourable Sir Chas. Hanbury Williams ... From the Originals in the Possession of His Grandson The Right Hon. The Earl of Essex and Others: With Notes by Horace Walpole ... In Three Volumes, with Portraits |
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ON
CHARLES STANHOPE, ESQ.
DRINKING TAR-WATER. |
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ON CHARLES STANHOPE, ESQ. DRINKING TAR-WATER.
WHEN Charles by rule episcopal
Tar-water first began;
Methinks, he cry'd, I feel myself
Become a double man.
Tar-water first began;
Methinks, he cry'd, I feel myself
Become a double man.
Its prowess he resolv'd to try,
But oh! with shame and trouble,
He found of all his boasted parts,
One thing alone was double.
But oh! with shame and trouble,
He found of all his boasted parts,
One thing alone was double.
Enrag'd, he curst the silly book,
The bishop and the tar;
And swore the beggar's blessing was
A better boon by far.
The bishop and the tar;
And swore the beggar's blessing was
A better boon by far.
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