THOMPSON'S TRIP TO EPSOM 



Thoftipsoji s Trip to Epsom 



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KIND friends ! delighted Thompson ! on the 

 night he came to town 

 They said : " If up to Epsom, we will call and take 



you down." 

 Next morn, ere Boots awoke him, there was seen at 



Thompson's door 

 The coach the ladies sat in and the satin that they 

 wore. 



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Poor Thompson's had no breakfast ! how could he 



his bacon save, 

 How cut his mutton-chops up when his own he 



could not shave ? 

 Poor Thompson's had no breakfast ! " Waiter, say 



we cannot wait ; " 

 With friends so fast his fate it was to fast upon a 



fate ! 



Ill 



" We're full inside, for empties there's an empty 



dicky free," 

 Alas ! ere long with Thompson's heart all dicky 



will it be ; 

 Her beaming eye who tied his veil pierc'd thro' him 



like a lance, 

 Of what avail was such a veil to shield from such a 



glance ? 



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