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• Good Ale

  I Cannot eat but little meat,—
  My stomach is not good;
  But, sure, I think that I can drink …

  John Still

• The Pilgrims and the Peas

  A Brace of sinners, for no good,
  Were ordered to the Virgin Mary’s shrine,
  Who at Loretto dwelt, in wax, stone, wood, …

  John Wolcot

• The Vicar of Bray

  IN 1 good King Charles’s golden days,
  When loyalty no harm meant,
  A zealous high-churchman was I, …

  Anonymous

• Hudibras’ Sword and Dagger

  From “Hudibras,” Part I.
  HIS puissant sword unto his side
  Near his undaunted heart was tied, …

  Samuel Butler

• The Fine Old English Gentleman

  I ’LL 1 sing you a good old song,
  Made by a good old pate,
  Of a fine old English gentleman …

  Anonymous

• Toby Tosspot

  ALAS! what pity ’t is that regularity,
  Like Isaac Shove’s, is such a rarity!
  But there are swilling wights in London town, …

  George Colman the Younger

• The Milkmaid

  A Milkmaid, who poised a full pail on her head,
  Thus mused on her prospects in life, it is said:
  “Let me see,—I should think that this milk will procure …

  Jeffreys Taylor

• Morning Meditations

  Let Taylor preach, upon a morning breezy,
  How well to rise while nights and larks are flying—
  For my part, getting up seems not so easy …

  Thomas Hood

• Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog

  Good people all, of every sort,
  Give ear unto my song;
  And if you find it wondrous short, …

  Oliver Goldsmith

• Old Grimes

  Old Grimes is dead, that good old man,—
  We ne’er shall see him more;
  He used to wear a long black coat, …

  Albert G. Greene

• Elegy on Madam Blaize

  Good people all, with one accord,
  Lament for Madam Blaize;
  Who never wanted a good word— …

  Oliver Goldsmith

• The Grave-Yard

  From “a Fable for Critics”
  LET us glance for a moment, ’t is well worth the pains,
  And note what an average grave-yard contains; …

  James Russell Lowell

• Faithless Nelly Gray

  A Pathetic Ballad
  BEN BATTLE was a soldier bold,
  And used to war’s alarms; …

  Thomas Hood

• Faithless Sally Brown

  Young Ben he was a nice young man,
  A carpenter by trade;
  And he fell in love with Sally Brown, …

  Thomas Hood

• Orator Puff

  Mr. Orator PUFF had two tones in his voice,
  The one squeaking thus, and the other down so;
  In each sentence he uttered he gave you your choice, …

  Thomas Moore

• The Gouty Merchant and the Stranger

  In Broad Street building (on a winter night),
  Snug by his parlor-fire, a gouty wight
  Sat all alone, with one hand rubbing …

  Horace Smith

• The Diverting History of John Gilpin

  Showing How He Went Farther Than He Intended, and Came Safe Home Again
  JOHN GILPIN was a citizen
  Of credit and renown, …

  William Cowper

• Epigrams

  Cologne
  IN Köln, a town of monks and bones,
  And pavements fanged with murderous stones, …

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

• The Razor-Seller

  A Fellow in a market-town,
  Most musical, cried razors up and down,
  And offered twelve for eighteen pence; …

  John Wolcot

• Paper

  A Conversational Pleasantry
  SOME wit of old—such wits of old there were,
  Whose hints showed meaning, whose allusions care— …

  Benjamin Franklin

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