FORTUNE-TELLER.
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POPPY.
Loose in morals and in manners vain.
In conversation frivolous in dress
Extreme ; at once rapacious and profuse;
Frequent in park with lady at his side,
Ambling, and prattling scandal as he goes,
But rare at home, and never at his books,
Or with his pen, save when he scrawls a card;
Constant at routs, familiar with a round
Of ladyships, a stranger to the poor.
In conversation frivolous in dress
Extreme ; at once rapacious and profuse;
Frequent in park with lady at his side,
Ambling, and prattling scandal as he goes,
But rare at home, and never at his books,
Or with his pen, save when he scrawls a card;
Constant at routs, familiar with a round
Of ladyships, a stranger to the poor.
Cowper.
As brown in hue
As hazel nuts, and sweeter than the kernel.
As hazel nuts, and sweeter than the kernel.
Shakspeare.
