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TWELFTH NIGHT ;
OR, FALSE AND TRUE.
ASOCIABLE party, last Twelfth Night thought fit
Its talent to try at extempore wit ;
To tell one, a story unfounded Truth's laws on,
In manner exceeding even Baron Munchausen;
'Another, immutable Truth to disguise
In style that the party should please and surprise.
THE MERRY DUNN OF DOVER.
The Vessel the Merry Dunn christen'd of Dover,
In length many leagues of the Ocean would cover !
At Sunderland 'cargoes of coals would receive
At her bow-port ! and, what you will scarcely believe,
Would, at the same time, from her stern-port discharge,
Below London Bridge, into lighter and barge !
A boy sent aloft, the ship's pendant to clear,
In ascent and descent for many a year,
So long was about it, as all might presage,
That when he came down, he was grey with old age!
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This ship from the Downs while her way NV orking out,
In length was so great, that in tacking about,
Like some Boating mountain, the dread of the people,
Her flying-gib-boom then knock'd down Calais steeple !
r Same time that her ensign's long tail by a sweep
From Dover heights struck off a large Rock of sheep!
The story thus ended, a Lady began—
" What is it that beats even the great Merry Dunn ?
Whose standard of fame, many years now unfurrd,
Extends o'er the whole of the civilized world !
The Merry Dunn merely to Ocean confined.
But this all the haunts stilt pervades of mankind;
Your vessel unwieldy ; but this givei a grace,
And stamps the criterion of Taste On your race."
" Tis WARREN'S Jet Mewling !" each voice now replies,
And Truth thus achieved of due honors the prize:
This Easy Shining and Brilliant BLACKING Prepared by