ORIGINAL POETRY. 
AN EPISTLE 
FROM ROMEO TO MISS 
By the hand of his Mistress. 
Containing an account of an adventure he had met 
with, and of a visit which he had made to the 
‘parlour, at the request of two Gentlemen who were 
drinking tea with his aforesaid Mistress. 
BY THE.AUTHOR OF “ THE MUMMY. 
Dear lady, I have dared to tread 
In the forbidden parlour’s bounds; 
And Pue@se’s broom, above my head, 
No longer big with vengeance sounds! 
My heart still throbs whene’er I think 
On what, that day, I dared to do: 
Dear Mistress, take your pen and ink, 
And write as fast as J can mew! 
Tell, how my hairs stood all on end, 
When the shut door with dread I view’d; 
Till you, most kindly, stood my friend, 
And all my trembling fears subdued: 
