Social Commentaries
Comic Lines
From Works, ed. Gosse, vol. I (1884)
Social Commentaries
Weddell attends your call, and Palgrave proud,
and Delaval the loud.
For thee does Powell squeeze, and Harriot sputter,
And Glyn cut phizzes, and Tom Neville stutter.
Brown sees thee sitting on his nose's tip,
The Widow feels thee in her aching hip;
For thee fat Nanny sighs, and handy Nelly,
And Balguy with a bishop in his belly.
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