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Title: A lyttel parcell of poems and parodyes in prayse of tobacco, contayning divers conceited ballades, and pithie sayinges, all newly collected and emprinted
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Hamilton, Walter, 1844-1899
Subjects: Tobacco Smoking Parodies
Publisher: London : Reeves & Turner
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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as a Yankee, who offered cheroots, Z was a Zealot, who said Fit for brutes ! 6 the Yankee replied,Brutesdont talk.or wear boots. i8o BALLADES ON SMOKING. The Smokers Philosophy. Oh ! tis very pleasant; thus to sit and smokeMakes a peer of peasant, of sad life a joke ;What are cares and troubles, what are hopes and fears ?Scarce so many bubbles—in a hundred years. What your weight or worth then, who the deuce will care?What you did on earth then, who on earth you were ?Who the dickens nursed you ? Who for you shed tears ?Who shed none, but cursed you—in a hundred years ? Twill be all the same lad if with drum and fifeYouve enjoyed a game lad, or a quiet life.Used a spade or sabre, fed your friends or steers ;Youll have ceased from labour—in a hundred years. Still there will be flowers lad, some more fruit be ripe ;True twill not be ours lad ; smoke another pipe,Then off ourselves to bed take ; pretty little dears,I warrant weve no headache—in a hundred years J. A. COLWYN. 1^73-
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THIi: WorMWMmMMILTON. THE POETS LAUREATEOF ENGLAND: BEING A History of the Office of Poet Laureate, Biographical Notices of its Holders, and a Collection of the Satires, Epigrams, and Lampoons directed against them. OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. The author of this amusinsr volume has spared no pains to makeit as complete as possible, and it is a good instance of the progressthat we have made of late years in the production of literary history.Mr. Hamiltons pages will not only be found useful for purj)oses ofreference, but extremely entertaining to an idle reader. TheAthena3um. January 18, 1870. Recommendation can scarcely be necessary to recure properattention for The Poets Laureate of England, by Walter Hamilton,inasmuch as the very title is pretty sure to attract notice and piquecuriosity. It maj^ be worth while, however, to remark at once that,what with the care, diligence, and judgme.it which have apparentlybeen brought to bear upon the whole compositicn of the book thepublic have a chan

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