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know the meaning of the lines he has scratch'd on the middle pane of the north window:

Now, can you understand that, mistress madam?

I say the verses are very pretty verses, and what does it signify whether one understands them or not?

And then upon the other pane close by it:

(To Jenkins.) Now this is Doll herself he means in these verses, for he came to this house the very day that the beggar-woman stole her new stockings from the side of the wash-tub, and I'm sure she shed as many tears about them as would have wash'd them as white as a lily, tho' they were none of the cleanest neither, it must be confess'd.—If I were to write poetry

If you were to write poetry! Don't you remember when you made that bad metre for Goody