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- HO! pretty page, with the dimpled chin,
- That never has known the barber's shear,
- All your wish is woman to win;
- This is the way that boys begin, --
- Wait till you come to forty year.
- Curly gold locks cover foolish brains;
- Billing and cooing is all your cheer, --
- Sighing, and singing of midnight strains,
- Under Bonnybell's window-panes, --
- Wait till you come to forty year.
- Forty times over let Michaelmas pass;
- Grizzling hair the brain doth clear;
- Then you know a boy is an ass,
- Then you know the worth of a lass, --
- Once you ahve come to forty year.
- Pledge me round; I bid ye declare,
- All good fellows whose beards are gray, --
- Did not the fairest of the fair
- Common grow and wearisome ere
- Even a month was past away?
- The reddest lips that ever have kissed,
- The brightest eyes that ever have shone
- May pray and whisper and we not list,
- Or look away and never be missed, --
- Ere yet ever a month is gone.
- Gillian's dead! God rest her bier, --
- How I loved her twenty years syne!
- Marian's married; but I sit here,
- Alone and merry at forty year,
- Dipping my nose in the Gascon wine.
- William Makepeace Thackeray

- WERTHER had a love for Charlotte
- Such as words could never utter;
- Would you know how first he met her?
- She was cutting bread and butter.
- Charlotte was a married lady,
- And a moral man was Werther,
- And for all the wealth of Indies,
- Would do nothing for to hurt her.
- So he sighed and pined and ogled,
- And his passion boiled and bubbled,
- Till he blew his silly brains out,
- And no more was by it troubled.
- Charlotte, having seen his body
- Borne before her on a shutter,
- Like a well-conducted person,
- Went on cutting bread and butter.
- William Makepeace Thackeray

- THERE were three sailors in Bristol City,
- Who took a boat and went to sea.
- But first with beef and captain's biscuit,
- And pickled pork they loaded she.
- There was gorging Jack and guzzling Jimmy,
- And the youngest he was little Billee.
- Now when they'd got as far as the Equator
- They'd nothing left but one split pea.
- Says gorging Jack to guzzling Jimmy,
- "I am extremely hungaree."
- To gorging Jack says guzzling Jimmy,
- "We've nothing left, us must eat we."
- Says gorging Jack to guzzling Jimmy,
- "With one another we shouldn't agree!
- There's little Bill, he's young and tender,
- We're old and tough, so let's eat he."
- "O Billy! we're going to kill and eat you,
- So undo the button of your chemie."
- When Bill he heard this information,
- He used his pocket-handkerchie.
- "First let me say my catechism
- Which my poor mother taught to me."
- "Make haste! make haste!" says guzzling Jimmy,
- While Jack pulled out his snickersnee.
- Billy went up to the main top-gallant mast,
- And down he fell on his bended knee,
- He scarce had come to the Twelfth Commandment
- When up he jumps - "There's land I see!"
- "Jerusalem and Madagascar
- And North and South Amerikee,
- There's the British flag a-riding at anchor,
- With Admiral Napier, K.C.B"
- So when they got aboard of the Admiral's,
- He hanged fat Jack and flogged Jimmee,
- But as for little Bill, he made him
- The Captain of a Seventy-three.
- William Makepeace Thackeray

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