A line-o'-verse or two
[Pg 58]

LYDIA:

You sweet, philandering, perjured villain,

Tho’ Cally boy were twice as killin’.

[Pg 59]

[Pg 59]

III

III

TO PYRRHA

“Quis multa gracilis.”

“Quis multa gracilis.”

  What young tin whistle gent, Bedaubed with barber’s scent,— What cheapskate waits on you To woo, O Pyrrha?

What cheapskate waits on you

To woo,

O Pyrrha?

  For whom the puff and rat And transformation that You bought a year ago Or so, O Pyrrha?

You bought a year ago

Or so,

O Pyrrha?

  Peeved? Not a bit. Not I I’m sorry for the guy. He draws a lovely lime This time, O Pyrrha!


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