ENJOYING a FRIEND

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Smoak is the order of the night
This, a tete a tete enjoyment
But smoking is my friends delight
When he has no great employment
Well thus they meet to tell the news
First of friends & then their neighbours
Concerns of State & grand reviews
Present past and future labours

Pray do admire these happy friends
Mark their attitudes & features
One says what neither comprehends.
Happy dull and stupid creatures
Now they have had their story out
Two hours have past a great delay
But nothing left to talk about
They'll meet again another day.

Published August 21, 1798. by LAURIE & WHITTLE N°53 Fleet Street.