Selections from the Epigrams of M. Valerius Martialis Translated or Imitated in English Verse: By W. J. Courthope |
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To the Public
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To the Public
If books you'd order without failAs company for boat or rail,
Buy this, whose small octavo page
Reflects the spirit of our age.
More weighty volumes desks demand,
But this you'll manage, sit or stand,
To hold with ease in either hand.
Where you may buy it next I'll tell.
Mount from the Club-land of Pall Mall
To where St. James by roadway hilly
Conducts your feet to Piccadilly.
If with the publisher you'd parle,
Cross to the street of Albemarle;
There (in an ancient house, whose fame
Is sung by bards of mighty name)
You'll find him at his work each day
In 50 or in 50A.
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