The Merry-Thought Volume I Part 5

_Underwritten._

Give and take; Weight for Inches.

S. R.

_From a Bog-House at Hampton-Court, supposed to be written by a violent Lover._

Oh! that I were a T - - - d, a T - - - d, Hid in this secret Place, That I might see my _Betsy_'s A----, Though she sh - - t me in my Face.

R. M. 1703.

_Written under this in a Woman's Hand._

'Tis Pity but you had your Wish.

E. W.

_Nottingham, at the Castle: _Jack N----_ cured._

The Five and twentieth Day of _July_, When _Jack_ with Liquor grew unruly, In comes Sir _Richard_ with a Quart, And drank him till he broke his Heart; So down dropp'd _Jack_ Upon his Back, And lay, Till Day, And went away.

R. C. July 26. 1716.

_Catherine-Wheel, High-Wickham, upon a Window._

_Salley_'s my Toast from Head to Tail; Not half so good is Toast and Ale.

_J. S._ Esq; of _Oriel-College, Oxon._

_Three-Pigeons, Brentford, in a Window._

How vain the Hopes of Woman's Love, While all their Hearts inconstant prove; Nor _M - - - - k_, nor will _Dolly_ come; Nor _Sukey_ with her thumping B--m; Nor _Molly_ with her flaring Eyes; Nor _Nancy_ with her bouncing Thighs: If one don't come, my Curse is this, That they may never sh - - t nor p - - ss.

Six in the Morning, R. R. of _Oxford_.

_Three-Pigeons, Brentford, upon a Drinking-Gla.s.s._

Dear charming lovely _Nancy L-- --r_, Thou art my only Toast, I swear.

T. T. from _Coventry_, _Feb._ 13. 1716.

_On another at the same Place._

My dearest _Sukey Percivall_, Is all my Toast, and that is all.

Captain _F----l_, _July_ 4. 1716.

_Red-Lion, at Southwell, in a Window._

_Clarinda_ lay here With a young Cavalier; With her Heart full of Fear, For her Husband was near.

L. L. _Feb._ 2. 1728.

_Written under._

'Tis very true; for we saw _Rem-in-Re_ through the Key-Hole.

S. M. } J. M. } _Feb._ 3. 1728.

R. H, }

_Written under._

If the Husband had come, And had seen his Wife's B - - m, He'd a known by her Looks, She'd been playing ---- At Hoy Gammer Cooks.

S. B. _March_ 3. 1728.

_Windsor, the White-Hart, in a Window._

Now is my latest Guinea chang'd, And gone where it was used to range: When that was broke, it broke my Heart; For now for ever we must part, Unless I boldly meet it on the Road, And bid the Porter give it me, by G - d.

And so I'll do; _Tom. Stout_ Will see it out, _Feb._ 2.

_Underwritten._

Win it and take it, says Captain _Hector_: I defy the bold Robber; and I have an hundred Guineas that I shall travel with to-morrow.

_Feb._ 16.

_At the Cardinal's-Cap In Windsor, on a Window._

_J. F._ is fifteen, and so charming her Mien, } Her Eyes are like Brilliants, her Looks are serene, } And one Kiss from her Lips is worth ten from a Queen. }

_Tom. Fool_, 1726.

_At the same Place, on the Wall._

Never had Mortal greater Wit Than I who ever wanted it; But now my Wants have made me scrawl, And rhyme and write the Devil and all.

_J. Forbes_, 1720.