The Works of Thomas Love Peacock - 1875 Author:Thomas Love Peacock Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: TO A YOUNG LADY, NETTING. [Published in 1806.] WHILE those bewitching hands combine, With matchless grace, the silken line, They also weave, with gentle art,... more » Those stronger nets that bind the heart. But soon all earthly things decay : That net in time must wear away : E'en Beauty's silken meshes gay No lasting hold can take : But Beauty, Virtue, Sense, combin'd, (And all these charms in thee are join'd) Can throw that net upon the mind, No human heart can o'er unbind, No human pow'r can break. LEVI MOSES. [Published iu 1806.] Sed quo divitias hsec per tormenta coactas? Cum furor haud dubius, cum sit manifesta p Ut locuples moriaris egenti vivere fato ?—Je MA name'sh Levi Moshesh: I tink I vash born, Dough I cannot exactly remember, In Roshemary Lane, about tree in de morn, Shome time in de mont of November. Ma fader cried " dothesh," trough de shtreetsh ash he vent, Dough he now shleeping under de shtone ish, He made by hish bargains two hundred per shent, And dat vay he finger'd de monish. Ma fader vash vise : very great vash hish shenshe : "] De monish he alvaysh vash turning: And early he taught mo poundsh, shillingsh, and penshe; " For," shaysh he, " dat ish all dat'sh vorth learning. Ash to Latin and Greek, 'tish all nonshenshe, I shay, Vhioh occasion to shtudy dere none ish; But shtiok closho to Cocker, for dat ish de vay, To teach you to finger de monish." To a shtock-broker den I apprentishe vash bound, Who hish monish lov'd very shinsherely; And, trough hish inshtructions, I very shoon found, I ma bushinesh knew pretty clearly. Shaysh he : " cheat a little : 'tish no shuch great crime, Provided it cleverly done ish :" Sho I cleverly cheated him every time I could manage to finger hish monish. And den I she...« less