CHAIR

By your awkward address, you're that thing which should carry,

With one footman behind, our lover Sir Harry.

By your language, I judge, you think me a wench;

He that makes love to me, must make it in French.

Thou that's drawn by two beasts, and carry'st a brute,

Canst thou vainly e'er hope, I'll answer thy suit?

Though sometimes you pretend to appear with your six,

No regard to their colour, their sexes you mix:

Then on the grand-paw you'd look very great,

With your new-fashion'd glasses, and nasty old seat.

Thus a beau I have seen strut with a cock'd hat,

And newly rigg'd out, with a dirty cravat.

You may think that you make a figure most shining,

But it's plain that you have an old cloak for a lining.

Are those double-gilt nails? Where's the lustre of Kerry,

To set off the Knight, and to finish the Jerry?

If you hope I'll be kind, you must tell me what's due

In George's-lane for you, ere I'll buckle to.

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