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Martin: A Bon Gaultier Ballad
I to wed with Coromantees! I, who managed—very
near—
To secure the heart and fortune of the widow Shillibeer!
Stuff and nonsense! let me never fling a single chance
away;
Maids ere now, I know, have loved me, and another
maiden may.
'Morning Post' ('The Times' won't trust me) help me,
as I know you can;
I will pen an advertisement,—that's a never-failing
plan.
'WANTED—By a bard, in wedlock, some young interesting
woman:
Looks are not so much an object, if the shiners be forthcoming!
'Hymen's chains the advertiser vows shall be but silken
fetters;
Please address to A. T., Chelsea. N.B.- You must pay
the letters.'
That's the sort of thing to do it. Now I'll go and taste
the balmy,—
Rest thee with thy yellow nabob, spider-hearted Cousin
Amy!
SIR THEODORE MARTIN
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