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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: In A Lady's Ivory Tablebook, 1699. ERUSE my leaves through every part, And think thou seest my owner's heart, Scrawl'd o'er with trifles thus, and quite As hard, as senseless, and as light; Expos'd to every coxcomb's eyes, But hid with caution from the wise. Here you may read, " Dear charming saint !" Beneath, A new receipt for paint: " Here, in beau-spelling, " True tel deth;" There, in her own, For an el breth: " Here, " Lovely nymph, pronounce my doom !" There, ( A safe way to use perfume: " Here, a page fiU'd with billets-doux; On t'other side, " Laid out for shoes" ? " Madam, I die without your grace'' ? " Item, for half a yard of lace." Who that had wit would place it here, For every peeping fop to jeer ? In power of spittle and a, clout, Whene'er he please to blot it out; And then, to heighten the disgrace, Clap his own nonsense in the place. Whoe'er expects to hold his part In such a book, and such a heart, If he be wealthy, and a fool, Is in all points the fittest tool; Of whom it may be justly said, He 's a gold pencil tipp'd with lead. c 3 Mbs.Mrs, HARRIS'S PETITION. 1 O their Excellencies the Lords Justices of Ireland, The humble petition of Frances Harris, Who must starve, and die a maid, if it miscarries; Humbly showeth, That I went to warm myself in lady Betty's-f- chamber, because I was cold; And I had in a purse seven pounds, four shillings, and six pence, beside farthings, in money and gold; So, because I had been buying things for my lady last night, I was resolved to tell my money, to see if it was right. Now, you must know, because my trunk has a very bad lock, Therefore all the money I have, which, God knows, is a very small stock, I...