APRIL.
| 1835.] | APRIL. | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Opera open—Town fills— | |||
| Old fools dance quadrilles— | |||
| Paganini's fiddle-de-D— | |||
| The D— once fiddled a guinea from me— | |||
| Crockford's splendid Saturday Dinners— | |||
| Sunday—"Miserable sinners!" | |||
| M | Season's | Odd Matters. | WEATHER. |
| D | Signs. | ||
| 1 | growing | If it be | |
| 2 | showers | APRIL RHYMES. | neither |
| 3 | springing | Rhymes for April—let me sing | ♄ ♊ ♌ ☿ ⚹ |
| The pleasures of returning spring. | |||
| 4 | flowers | warm | |
| I wish, in verse the lines ran single, | |||
| 5 | hot | 'Tis tiresome, hunting words that jingle, | nor cold, wet |
| And just as hard, in any season, | |||
| 6 | cross | To furnish either rhyme or reason: | nor dry, |
| For showers, and bowers, and buds of roses, | |||
| 7 | bunn | Nights, and blights, and blue cold noses, | ♂ ☉ ☌ ☍ |
| Beams and gleams, and flow'rets springing, | |||
| 8 | day | Feather'd warblers, winging, singing, | calm |
| Hills and rills, and groves and loves, | |||
| 9 | Easter | Wooing, cooing, turtle-doves, | nor storm; |
| Shades and glades, and larks and thrushes, | |||
| 10 | Monday | Chilly grass, and dripping bushes, | and |
| Are soon a poor exhausted store;— | |||
| 11 | what a | I'll try a city theme for more. | |
| ⚹ ♊ ♄ ☉ | |||
| 12 | fun | Judges, fudges, wigs, and prigs, | |
| In coaches, busses, cabs, and gigs, | there be | ||
| 13 | day! | Dripping, tripping, slipping, slopping, | |
| Pink silk stockings go a-shopping; | neither | ||
| 14 | prentice | Haggling, draggling, puddling, poking, | |
| Drizzling, mizzling, muddling, soaking, | |||
| 15 | boys | Dirty crossings, dainty faces, | ♃ ♄ ☉ ☿ ♂ |
| Pretty legs choose widest places; | |||
| 16 | full | And fools are made, by far the worst, | frost, snow, |
| On other days besides the First. | |||
| 17 | of | hail, rain, | |
| 18 | joys | ||
| 19 | noise | ♊ ☉ | |
| 20 | toys | ♄ ♊ ☿ ♂ ⚹ | |
| 21 | Greenwich | why then | |
| 22 | hill | you may say, | |
| 23 | Jack | ♄ ♊ ☉ | |
| 24 | and | that | |
| 25 | Jill | ||
| ♃ ♄ ♊ ☉ ♂ | |||
| 26 | tumble | ||
| I am | |||
| 27 | down | ||
| ☌ ☉ ♌ ♈ ☿ | |||
| 28 | crack | ||
| no | |||
| 29 | their | ||
| conjurer. | |||
| 30 | crown | ||
ABSTRACT of an ACT, intituled an Act for the Amendment of an
Act for the Amendment of the Poor Laws.
[To be passed on the 1st of April next.]
Preamble.—Abuses all former Acts, and repeals them accordingly.
Clause 1.—Empowers paupers to act as Churchwardens and Overseers; to form their own vestries, and pass laws for their own relief.
Clause 2.—Provides for weekly tavern dinners for the same; and stipulates for a bountiful supply of turtle-soup, venison, burgundy, champagne, hock, claret, and rose-water.
Clause 3.—Enacts that pensions, of not less than £1000 per annum, shall be granted to all former Churchwardens and Overseers, as a compensation for their loss of office; and that they shall each be raised to the rank of baronet, as a compensation for their loss of dignity.
Clause 4.—Enacts that every able-bodied pauper, who can work, shall be allowed five guineas per week each, and two guineas for each of their children, illegitimate or otherwise; and should any refractory pauper refuse this allowance, and prefer breaking stones at a penny per bushel, he shall be forthwith committed to the custody of the keeper of the London Tavern, if in the City of London, or of some inn or hotel, if any other part of the kingdom, and be compelled to feast like an alderman, till he show symptoms of contrition.