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    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 104, March 4, 1893
    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 104, March 4, 1893
    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 104, March 4, 1893
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    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 104, March 4, 1893

    By Various Various and F. C. (Francis Cowley) Burnand

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    Release dateNov 25, 2013
    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 104, March 4, 1893

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      Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 104, March 4, 1893 - Various Various

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 104,

      March 4, 1893, by Various

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      Title: Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 104, March 4, 1893

      Author: Various

      Editor: Francis Burnand

      Release Date: August 23, 2007 [EBook #22380]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PUNCH, OR THE LONDON ***

      Produced by Matt Whittaker, Juliet Sutherland and the

      Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

      Transcriber's Note: The short pieces Suppositious and Quite Another Thing were moved from their original positions accompanying the illustration The Political Fancy Dress Ball at Covent Gardent on page 107 to the end of page 108, to prevent the Essence of Parliament article from being broken in the middle.

      PUNCH,

      OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.

      VOL. 104.

      March 4, 1893.

      A BALLAD OF WEALTHY WOOING.

      Ah, why, my Love, receive me

      With such tip-tilted scorn?

      Self-love can scarce retrieve me

      From obloquy forlorn;

      'Twas not my fault, believe me,

      That wealthy I was born.

      Of Nature's gifts invidious

      I'd choose I know not which;

      One might as well be hideous

      As shunn'd because he's rich.

      O Love, if thou art bitter,

      Then death must pleasant be;

      I know not which is fitter,

      Not I—(or is't not me?)

      'Tis not that thou abhorrest,

      Oh, maid of dainty mould!

      The foison of the florist,

      The goldsmith's craft of gold;

      Nor less than others storest

      Rare pelts by furriers sold;

      But knowing I adore thee,

      And deem all graces thine,

      My choicest offerings bore

      Just because they are mine.

      Then, smile not, dear deceiver,

      Keep no kind word for me,

      Enough that the receiver

      Is thou—(or is it thee?)

      When others come, how trimly

      Thou sett'st thy chatty sail!

      For me alone all dimly

      Seemeth the sun to fail.

      Young Frank he frowneth grimly,

      And thou turn'st haughty pale.

      'Tis not the taint of City,

      For here be scores who sport

      Their Mayfair manners pretty

      In Cop-the-Needle Court.

      Ah, chill me not so coolly,

      A Crœsus though I be—

      The one who loveth truly

      I swear is I—(or me?)

      But what availeth grammar

      As taught in straitest schools—

      The hammer of the Crammer

      Forging Bellona's tools—

      Or words that humbly stammer

      Regardless of the rules?

      And what availeth fretting,

      Deep sighs, and dwindling waist,

      And what the sad forgetting

      Of culinary taste,

      Since still thou fondly spurnest

      Five hundred thou. (or thee.?)

      And on young Stoney turnest

      Love's eye—(or is it me?)

      Sad Conclusion.—To be virtuous for virtue's sake, without prospect of reward, this is to be good for nothing!

      BYE-ELECTION-OLOGY.

      Gladys. Listen, Sibyl. Papa has won a Great Moral Victory——What does a Moral Victory mean exactly?

      Sibyl (who has had more experience). Oh, it means—well, that we are to be the Victims of Political Economy, and not go to London, after all!

      INDERWICKEDNESS.

      I do not wish to make a joke, Mr. Inderwick,

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