And, besides, Directors’ fees:
Office work—an hour a day,
Lots to get, and nought to pay…
Flats agog to risk their tin.
Giv’n good names to draw them in.
So Guinea-pigs, Guinea-pigs, pigs, I cry,—
As Directors Qualify!
Punch. March 6, 1875.
Herrick had no occasion to steal, yet there is little doubt but that his Cherry Ripe was adapted from Allison’s earlier, and prettier poem, There is a Garden in her Face; whilst the following lines (which occur in his poem upon Mistress Susanna Southwell,)
Her pretty feet