“Let me request a favour, pray”—
“I’ll do it if I can”—
“Oh! well then, love, smoke everyday,
You smell so like a man!”
From Gimcrackiana, or Fugitive pieces on Manchester Men and Manners. Manchester, 1833. (Attributed to John Stanley Gregson.)
An Imitation of Mr. Abraham Cowley.
“The lazy Earth doth steam amain,
And fumes and smokes beneath the rain:
The Rivers, Brooks, and Rivulets are