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He’d bellow out my name in tonesOffensive to the ear:He chaffs me so on being stout(A thing that always puts me out).”Ah me! I see him on the cliff!Farewell, farewell to hope,If he should look this way, and ifHe’s got his telescope!To whatsoever place I flee,My odious rival follows me!For every night, and everywhere,I meet him out at dinner;And when I’ve found some charming fair,And vowed to die or win her,The wretch (he’s thin and I am stout)Is sure to come and cut me out!The girls (just like them!) all agreeTo praise J. Jones, Esquire:I ask them what on earth they seeAbout him to admire?They cry “He is so sleek and slim,It’s quite a treat to look at him!”They vanish in tobacco smoke,Those visionary maids -I feel a sharp and sudden pokeBetween the shoulder-blades -“Why, Brown, my boy! Your growing stout!”(I told you he would find me out!)“My growth is not your business, Sir!”“No more it is, my boy!But if it’s yours, as I infer,Why, Brown, I give you joy!A man, whose business prospers so,Is just the sort of man to know!“It’s hardly safe, though, talking here -I’d best get out of reach:For such a weight as yours, I fear,Must shortly sink the beach!” -Insult me thus because I’m stout!I vow I’ll go and call him out!
ATALANTA IN CAMDEN-TOWNAy, ’twas here, on this spot,In that summer of yore,Atalanta did notVote my presence a bore,Nor reply to my tenderest talk “She hadheard all that nonsense before.”She’d the brooch I had boughtAnd the necklace and sash on,And her heart, as I thought,Was alive to my passion;And she’d done up her hair in the style thatthe Empress had brought into fashion.I had been to the playWith my pearl of a Peri -But, for all I could say,She declared she was weary,That “the place was so crowded and hot, andshe couldn’t abide that Dundreary.”Then I thought “Lucky boy!’Tis for you that she whimpers!”And I noted with joyThose sensational simpers:And I said “This is scrumptious!” - aphrase I had learned from the Devonshire shrimpers.And I vowed “’Twill be saidI’m a fortunate fellow,When the breakfast is spread,When the topers are mellow,When the foam of the bride-cake is white,and the fierce orange-blossoms are yellow!”O that languishing yawn!O those eloquent eyes!I was drunk with the dawnOf a splendid surmise -
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