Miscellanies in Prose and Verse | ||
On Lady JUVERNA's last Marriage.
Widows, who must have second dears,
Soon make a shift to dry their tears;
Their first good man is quite forgotten,
Before his winding-sheet is rotten.
This is Juverna's case at present:
The dame looks brisk again, and pleasant;
Yet vows, when-ever she grows mellow,
My D**rs**t never had his fellow.
Soon make a shift to dry their tears;
Their first good man is quite forgotten,
Before his winding-sheet is rotten.
This is Juverna's case at present:
The dame looks brisk again, and pleasant;
Yet vows, when-ever she grows mellow,
My D**rs**t never had his fellow.
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Good Lady, no one disallows
The merit of your present spouse;
And people who have seen him lately,
Tell me that they all like him greatly.
But did some other fill his place,
If possible, with equal grace,
He would not only please as well,
But must be deem'd a nonpareil.
Fie! (quoth Juverna) what d'ye mean?
I'll never love so well again.
The merit of your present spouse;
And people who have seen him lately,
Tell me that they all like him greatly.
But did some other fill his place,
If possible, with equal grace,
He would not only please as well,
But must be deem'd a nonpareil.
Fie! (quoth Juverna) what d'ye mean?
I'll never love so well again.
Well, Madam, may this fondness last,
Till scores of honey-moons are past:
But, for my part, while I'm alive,
I shall remember forty-five.
Till scores of honey-moons are past:
But, for my part, while I'm alive,
I shall remember forty-five.
Miscellanies in Prose and Verse | ||