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Comic Tales and Lyrical Fancies

including The Chessiad, a Mock-Heroic, in Five Cantos; and The Wreath of Love, in Four Cantos. By C. Dibdin, the Younger

Dibdin, Charles (1768-1833)

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LEVITIES AND COMIC TALES.

TO MY PEN.

THE ORNITHOLOGICAL REVIEW.

TOM AND DICK.

THE WIG; OR THE JUDGE AND HIS LADY.

GENIUS AND JOCKEYSHIP;

HORSES' BELLS;

THE ASTROLOGER;

PREJUDICE;

CHINA AND CROCKERY WARE;

THE ASS AND THE MULE;

THE FOX AT THE POINT OF DEATH.

THE STAG AND THE LION.

THE FOX THAT LOST HIS TAIL.

THE APE AND HER YOUNG ONES.

CONCEIT;

ANECDOTE OF DANIEL FRANCIS VOISIN,

EPIGRAM.

FIRE AND FROST;

THE CHESSIAD, A MOCK-HEROIC POEM, IN FIVE CANTOS.

THE RINGLET AND WREATH.

ON A PRETTY COQUETTE.

INVITATION.

THE LOVER'S CALL.

LINES, On seeing a young Lady, who was blind, playing on the Lute.

THE MANIAC'S FUNERAL, Written upon seeing at Bethlem Hospital what the Poem describes.

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EPIGRAM.

FROM THE FRENCH.

Two spendthrifts, sons of wealthy cits,
Cramp'd by their sires in cash, one day
Stopp'd at a book-stall, being wits,
But nought there pleas'd 'em—by the way,
The vender knew them (as fame gathers);
“I've not the thing you want,” he cried;
“What is't we want?” the pair replied:
He—“An abridgment of the fathers.”