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The Merry-Thought: or the Glass-Window and Bog-House Miscellany. Parts 2, 3 and 4 · Hurlothrumbo — chapter 9 of 9 · ~158 words · public domain

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Will make a T d more lasting; shown as printed

Part 3: Names the Nymph that I adore. text reads "Npmph" Save us from sudden Death, was said, text reads "wa ssaid"

Part 4: Shall lay (on Pain of Flagellation) (From lowest Club, to that call'd Royal,) close parenthesis missing from both lines He'el feed on a Jest, that is broke with your Wind, spelling unchanged By Swine who nee'r provide Bumfodder spelling unchanged (quoted in editor's introduction) E'er I that Suit procure. text has comma at end Professor of Dulness and Bombast. Price 6 d. text reads "Picre"

Further Notes:

Why are Doll's Teeth so white, and Susan's black? The Reason soon is known. Doll buys her Teeth which she doth lack, But Susan wears her own.

This verse is a translation of Martial V.43:

Thais habet nigros, niveos Laecania dentes Quae ratio est? Emptos haec habet, illa suos.

P. S. Quintus

Pope Sixtus V (= Quintus).

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