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Le Lutrin:
AN
HEROICK POEM.
Canto I.
The ARGUMENT.
The Argument? what needs a Proëme,
To vamp a Three-half-penny Poëme?
No, Reader, No; 'twas never writt
For thy sake, but for little Chitt.
St. George oth' back-side of the Horn-book,
The Dragon kills, to Humour Scorn-book.
And thus to wheddle in young Fops,
The gilded Sign hangs o're the Shops:
Miss won't come in to Buy, before
She spies the Knick-knacks at the Dore.
Thus Queasie Madams meat forbear
Untill they read, The Bill of Fare.
To vamp a Three-half-penny Poëme?
No, Reader, No; 'twas never writt
For thy sake, but for little Chitt.
St. George oth' back-side of the Horn-book,
The Dragon kills, to Humour Scorn-book.
And thus to wheddle in young Fops,
The gilded Sign hangs o're the Shops:
Miss won't come in to Buy, before
She spies the Knick-knacks at the Dore.
Thus Queasie Madams meat forbear
Untill they read, The Bill of Fare.
A 2
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