Leave your sickly painful couch,
Every bath shall make you stronger,
Nervous sufferers try the Douche.
From Health and Pleasure, or Malvern Punch, by J. B. Oddfish. (London. Simpkin, Marshall, & Co., 1865.)
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“POLY.”
(A new ballad of the Fleet, sung by a British Tar àpropos of the “Polyphemus.”)
Do you want to know the ugliest craft
That ever put from port?
Well that’s the Poly, the steel ram’d Poly,