Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, VERSES SENT TO MRS. T.B. WITH HIS WORKS, by ANONYMOUS


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VERSES SENT TO MRS. T.B. WITH HIS WORKS, by                    
First Line: "this book, which, like its author, you"
Last Line: "no, trust the sex's sacred rule; / the gaudy dress will save the fool"
Subject(s): Books; Reading


This Book, which, like its Author, You
By the bare Outside only knew,
(Whatever was in either Good,
Not look'd in, or, not understood)
Comes, as the Writer did too long,
To be about you, right or wrong;
Neglected on your Chair to lie,
Nor raise a Thought, nor draw an Eye;
In peevish Fits to have you say,
See there! you're always in my Way!
Or, if your Slave you think to bless,
I like this Colour, I profess!
That Red is charming all will hold,
I ever lov'd it -- next to Gold.

Can Book, or Man, more Praise obtain?
What more could G--ge or S--te gain?

Sillier than Gildon coud'st thou be,
Nay, did all Jacob breath in thee,
She keeps thee, Book! I'll lay my Head,
What? throw away a Fool in Red:
No, trust the Sex's sacred Rule;
The gaudy Dress will save the Fool.





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