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(77) Page 65 - Sleeping Thames one morn I cross'd
Pleasant and Diver tive.
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THE Sleeping Thames one Morn I cross'd,
By two contending Charons tost ;
I Landed and I found,
By one of Neptune's jugling Tricks,
Enchanted Thames was turn'd to Styx,
Lambeth th' Elysian Ground.
The Dirty Linkboy of the Day,
To make himself more fresh and gay,
Had spent five Hours, and more ;
Scarce had he Comb'd and Curl'd his Hair,
When out there comes a brighter Fair,
Eclips'd him o'er, and o'er.
The dazl'd Boy wou'd have retir'd,
But durst not, because he was hir'd,
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