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Autograph Bhyming Letter orthe Poet
COwpeT.

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Mr.. Fred ". Joy, of the Ely Cathedral
Library ha, published in Notes dld Queries
the following fusion from the poet Cowpcr.
he says bnye duly and diligently en-
deayored my-el with all available materials
to discover whether it has ever appeared pub
Ilcly before, l1t have been unsuccessful in
my search ID not know to whom it was
addressed
| Ny InY h fieaa I am going to send,
what when you have read, you may scratch
your head, and 1ay suppose, there Lobodv
knows, whether what have got, be Verse r
not by the tune and the time, it ought to be
rhine, but If 3, be, did yon ever see, of late
or OF yore. sue. a ditty before; the thought
did occur, to ms and to her, as Madame and
L, did walk not 1y, over hills and dales, with
| spreading sails before it was dark to Weston
Park.
The news @, Olney, is little or none(y),
but such aS II i- | send it-viz Poor Mr..
Peace, cannot cHase adding his head, with
what you said, md has left parish church
| quite IN the .ur'h, having almost swore, to 90
| there 30 more.
Page anl his wife, that made such strife,
we met them tvlin in Dag lane, we gave
them the wall, and that was all For Mr..
Scot, W. have seen him. not, except as he
pass Il IN wonderful haste to see a friend,
III Silver end. Mr.. Jones proposes, e'er July
closes, that she and her Sister, and her Jones
Mister, and We that are here, our course shal
steer, to dine in the spinney, but for guinea
the weather should hold, so hot and SO cold
we had better by far stay where we are, foi
the grass there grows, while nobody mows
(Which Is very wroug) 50 rank and long, that
so to speak, It's at least n week II 1t happen
to rain. Ger it dries again.
| have writ Charity not for popularity, but
as well as could, in hopes to do good. And
if the Review should say to be sure, the
Gentleman's muse. wears Methodist shoes,
you may know by her pace, and talk about
grace, that she aId her bard have little re-
gard, for the tastes and fashions, and ruling
passions, and lloyd ming play, of the modern
day, and though she assume, n borrowed
plume, amt now and tuen wear n titterng
air, It's only her plan, 20 catch il she can,
the giddy aud gay, rs they 90 that way by
n production, on new construction, and has
balted her trap, IN hopes to snap nll that
may come, with a sugar plumb, his opinion
III this, will not be omiss tbs what | intend,
my principal end and if it succeed, and folks
should read, It's few are brought, to n SER
ious thought shall think am paid, for all
have SAID, and ALL have done, though |
have run, many time. after a rhine as far
as from hence, to the end ofmy sense, and
by hook or crook write another DO )k, il |
live ami am here, another year.
haze beard before, of n room with floor,
laid upon springs and such like things, with
so much art, in every palt, that when You
wert IN, you was forced to begin, minuet
pace, with an air and a grace, swimming
about. now in now out, with deal of state,
in tSure OF Eight, without pipe or string,
or any such thing Aud now have writ, iu
rhiming fit, what will make you dance, and
az you advance. will keep you still, though
against your will, dancing away, alert and
gay, till you come to an end, of what | have
penned, which that you may do, e'er Madam
and you, are quite worn out, with jigging
about, | take my leave, and here you receive,
bow profound, down to the ground, from
your humble me, w. G.
p. S.-When | concluded, doubtless you
Il Id, think me night, as well you might, in
sA ying what said of SCOT, and then it was
true but now it is due. to him to note, that
since wrote himself and he, has visited
we.
July II Isl