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The life and remains of Theodore Edward Hook
The life and remains of Theodore Edward Hook Author:Theodore Edward Hook Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: DISAPPOINTMENT. Ye, Aldermen ! list to my lay— Oh, list, ere your bumpers ye fill— Her Majesty's dead !—lack-a-day ! She remember'd me not in her will. ... more »Oh, folly I oh, baneful ill-luck ! That I ever to court her begun; She was Queen, and I could not but suck— But she died, and poor Matty's undone ! Perhaps I was void of all thought, Perhaps it was plain to foresee, That a Queen so complete would be sought By a courtier more knowing than me. But self-love each hope can inspire, It banishes urisdom the while ; And I thought she would surely admire My countenance, whiskers, and smile. She is dead though, and I am undone! Ye that witness the woes I endure, Oh let me instruct you to shun What I cannot instruct you to cure: Beware how you loiter in vain Amid nymphs of a higher degree ; It is not for me to explain How fair and how fickle they be. Alas I that her lawyers e'er met, They alone were the cause of my woes; Their tricks I can never forget— Those lawyers undid my repose. Yet the Times may diminish my pain, If the Statesman and Traveller agree— Which I rear'd for her pleasure in vain— Yes, the Times shall have comfort for me, Mrs. W—d, ope your doors then apace; To your deepest recesses I fly ; I must hide my poor woe-begone face, I must vanish from every eye. But my sad, my deplorable lay, My reed shall resound with it still:— How her Majesty died t" other day, And remembered me not in her will. IRISH MELODIES. Having been frequently put to the blush by hearing very modest young ladies, without a blush (from their ignorance, no doubt), warbling forth the amatory effusions of Mr. Thomas Moore, I have been induced to purify some of the especial favourites of his muse from their grossness, and ...« less