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" Why , badly as my lot iriay fSll , " Said I , ambitious to be grand , * ' Eight or nine felloWs , straight and tall * Are constantly at my . command , " . " My dear Catullus ! what good hap is Our meeting ! lend me only eight , I would be carried to Serapis To-morrow /' «« Wait , fair lady ! wait . " I knew the number pretty well , There may be eight , I said , or nine , I merely had forgot to tell That they are Cinna ' s , and not mine .
It shews a mean spirit to not : Aurora shall have h « take a hint : for my part I will horses .
MR STIVERS TO LADY C . My Lady , I was wrong in my opinion of Mr Talboys . . not opinion , for that I am seldom or never wrong in , but what you call first impression * He may not have much invention ,
but he turns into verse everything that comes in his way . We have here some good company in the evening ; just enough to make up a rubber at whist . The ladies are not
ladies of rank , but are as good as those that are , for there ' s not one of them that has not her diamonds and rings upon every finger . Beside , though there are some that may forget the lead , there are none that
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I am &c . Sec . Sec . forget the candlestick , as man ; great folks do . You must hav heard of Mr and Mrs Cluttei
buck , and the widow Shuffle ton , for they say that they hav heard of you in London . I was the first thing I askei them ; and they all said , " 01 Lord ! to be sure !"
Mr Talboys turned int metre what he must have hear * at the card table ; it beinj impossible that Mrs Shuffleto and Mrs Clutterbuck shoul have spoken in rhyme off-hanc I doubt there is somethin
of his own : a cleverish an smartish cross-buttock at Ma dam Clutterbuck . Let he look to that : the lines ar these .
MRS SHUFFLETON . Dear me J Mrs Glutterbuck ! You have had such charming luck In your sweet good man , That you should not think it hard That you never got a caird Worth a scurf of bran .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 1, 1837, page 235, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1836/page/27/
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