Scripscrapologia or, Collins's Doggerel Dish Of All Sorts. Consisting of Songs Adapted to familiar Tunes, And which may be sung without the Chaunterpipe of an Italian Warbler, or the ravishing Accompaniments of Tweedle-Dum or Tweedle-Dee. Particularly those which have been most applauded in the author's once popular performance, call'd, The Brush. The Gallimaufry garnished with a variety of comic tales, quaint epigrams, whimsical epitaphs, &c. &c. [by John Collins] |
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THE UNEQUAL COMBATANTS. |
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THE UNEQUAL COMBATANTS.
Mrs. Forty, who once kept at Chelt'nam the Spa,
And, 'tis like enough, now does the same;
One Night, when at Cards, her Antagonist saw,
That by far, she'd the best of the Game:
And, 'tis like enough, now does the same;
One Night, when at Cards, her Antagonist saw,
That by far, she'd the best of the Game:
A Bystander asking him “how stood the Rub?”
He reply'd in a pertinent Pun,—
“Twice twenty poor Devils like me she can drub,
For the Odds are just Forty to One!”
He reply'd in a pertinent Pun,—
“Twice twenty poor Devils like me she can drub,
For the Odds are just Forty to One!”
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