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Rh But, were you as wicked as lewd Aretine, I wish you would tell me which way you incline. If, when you return, your road you don't line, On Thursday I'll pay my respects at your shrine, Wherever you bend, wherever you twine, In square, or in opposite circle, or trine, Your beef will on Thursday be salter than brine: I hope you have swill'd, with new milk from the kine, As much as the Liffee's outdone by the Rhine; And Dan shall be with us, with nose aquiline. If you do not come back, we shall weep out our eyne: Or may your gown never be good Lutherine. The beef you have got, I hear, is a chine: But, if too many come, your madam will whine; And then you may kiss the low end of her spine. But enough of this poetry Alexandrine: I hope you will not think this a pasquine.

me thy properties explain: A rotten cabin dropping rain; Chimnies with scorn rejecting smoke; Stools, tables, chairs, and bedsteads broke. Here elements have lost their uses, Air ripens not, nor earth produces; In