The Comic Almanack, Volume 2 / An Ephemeris in Jest and Earnest, Containing Merry Tales, Humerous Poetry, Quips, and Oddities

by William Makepeace Thackeray; Gilbert Abbott À Beckett; Henry Mayhew; Horace Mayhew; Albert Smith

"You'll clere me from this messe,

Iffe you'll tell me ye Waye to Welthe,

And Helthe, and Happinesse."

"I feare," sedde y^e Philosopher,

"Thatt's more thanne I canne doo;

To solve so deepe a problemme, boye,

Requires a pype or two."

He fill'd hys bowle, thenne pufft and thought,

And mutter'd "No! that's notte itte!

Y^e waye to Welthe!—Yes! lette mee see!