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A GENUINE
EPISTLE
To the late Famous
Mother LODGE, &c.
DEAR LODGE, you know my Love for Rhime;
You know, I write, whene'er I've Time.
While Poets entertain the Town
With Morals, Baudy, or Lampoon,
Learn from rude Lines by Punch inſpir'd,5
That Life, you have ſo oft requir'd;
But read with Candour, and excuſe
The Sallies of a Female Muſe.
One May Day Morning I was got:
My Father was a drunken Sot,10
A Barber,