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Both earth and sea o’erflowing
With flow’ry, flaunting words.
Yet on the board of common sense,
A simple dish, without pretense, —
Say plain potatoes, crisp and dry, —
Should have a value full as high
As puddings ever so delicious,
Served up in gold or silver dishes;
Then Agatha, my dear,
You must not think it queer,
If Lin simplest language here
Present you my good wishes: —
‘* May this dear boy both stout and strong
Jn heart and soul and body be.
And may his lady mother long
Live in good health right happily!"
Amen.
You will certainly think, my dear Charlotte, that I have
nothing else to do than to think and dream of those I
love, and, like a turtle-dove, coo out my feelings. All a
mistake! A tremendous mistake! I am overrun with
people from morning to night; and what do you think
they want? Hear only: —
’T is either the good mother,
Or ’t is the darling brother,
Or else the small boy quaking,
All with the ague shaking !
Now round the good Mam’selle,
Who in the house doth dwell,
They crowd in anxious mood,
And beg her to supply
Some sovereign remedy;
No matter where ’t was brewed,
Or how they gulp it down,
With many an angry frown;
If it but make them well,
From direful ague free,
’T will life’s elixir be!
And this elixir of life I compose of all kinds of ingre-
dients; such as ale, allspice, Swedish brandy, wormwood,
and caraway-seeds, etc., etc. One person I really believed
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