CLASSICAL CORRECTIONS.

In a neat little cottage, some five miles from town,

Lived a pretty young maiden, by name Daphne Brown,

Like a butterfly, pretty and airy:

In a village hard by lived a medical prig,

With a rubicund nose, and a full-bottomed wig,

Apollo, the apothecary.

He, being crop sick of his bachelor life,

Resolved, in his old days, to look for a wife—

(Nota bene—Thank Heaven, I'm not married):