Broad Grins / Comprising, With New Additional Tales in Verse, Those / Formerly Publish'd Under the Title "My Night-Gown and / Slippers."

by George Colman

In perfect solitude, beneath ’em.

Now, sitting under Laurels, Heroes say,

Gives grace, and dignity—and so it may—

When men have done campaigning;

But, certainly, these gentlemen must own

That sitting under Laurels, quite alone,

Is much more dignified than entertaining.

Pious Æneas, who, in his narration

Of his own prowess, felt so great a charm;—

(For, tho’ he feign’d great grief in the relation,