English Epigrams

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English Epigrams
William Davenport Adams
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Anon.
DVIII.
On Feminine Talkativeness.
How wisely Nature, ordering all below, Forbade a beard on woman's chin to grow ! For how could she be shaved, whate'er the skill, Whose tongue would never let her chin be still ?
Anon.
DIX.
To a Lady, with a Book returned, called "The Intelligencer. " I have kept your " Intelligence, " madam, so long, That I hardly dare hope you will pardon the wrong. Had you been but a man, no excuse I had writ, For we 're seldom severe to the faults we commit. But " Int
...elligence " kept the kind ladies must gall, Who no sooner receive it than part with it all !
Allan Ramsay (1686-1758).
On Women. 201 DX.
On a certain Lesbia.
When Lesbia first I saw, so heavenly fair, With eyes so bright and with that awful air, I thought my heart, which durst so high aspire, Was bold as his who snatch'd celestial fire.
But soon as e'er the beauteous idiot spoke, Forth from her coral lips such folly broke, Like balm the trickling nonsense heal'd my wound, And what her eyes enthrall'd her tongue unbound.


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