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THE MORAL.
To get a husband rich, gentle, and gay,
Of humour sweet, some time to stay
Is natural enough, ’tis true;
But then to wait a hundred years,
And all the while asleep, appears
A thing entirely new.
Now at this time of day,
Not one of all the sex w'e see
To sleep with such found tranquillity.
But yet this fable seems to let us know,
That very often Hymen’s bless is sweet,
Although some tedious obstacles they meet
Which makes us for them a long while stay.
And that we nothing lose by such delay.
But warm’d by nature’s lambient fires,
The sex so ardently aspires,
Of this blest state the sacred joys t’ embrace,
And with each earnest heart pursue’m,
I've not the will, I must confess,
Nor yet the power of fine address,
To preach this moral to ’em.
THE MORAL.
To get a husband rich, gentle, and gay,
Of humour sweet, some time to stay
Is natural enough, ’tis true;
But then to wait a hundred years,
And all the while asleep, appears
A thing entirely new.
Now at this time of day,
Not one of all the sex w'e see
To sleep with such found tranquillity.
But yet this fable seems to let us know,
That very often Hymen’s bless is sweet,
Although some tedious obstacles they meet
Which makes us for them a long while stay.
And that we nothing lose by such delay.
But warm’d by nature’s lambient fires,
The sex so ardently aspires,
Of this blest state the sacred joys t’ embrace,
And with each earnest heart pursue’m,
I've not the will, I must confess,
Nor yet the power of fine address,
To preach this moral to ’em.
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Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Curiosities and wonders > Sleeping beauty of the wood > (20) |
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Description | Over 3,000 chapbooks published in Scotland in the 18th and 19th centuries. Subjects include courtship, humour, occupations, fairs, apparitions, war, politics, crime, executions, Jacobites, transvestites, and freemasonry. Chapbooks are small booklets of 8, 12, 16 and 24 pages, often illustrated with crude woodcuts. Produced cheaply and sold by peddlars on the streets, they formed the staple reading material of the common people, along with broadsides. |
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