<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=355250" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Reproof</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Mamma heard me with scorn and pride<br>A wretched beggar-boy deride.<br>'Do you not know,' said I, 'how mean<br>It is to be thus begging seen?<br>If for a week I were not fed,<br>I'm sure I would not beg my bread.'<br>And then away she saw me stalk<br>With a most self-important walk.<br>But meeting her upon the stairs,<br>All these my consequential airs<br>Were changed to an entreating look.<br>'Give me,' said I, 'the pocket-book,<br>Mamma, you promised I should have.'<br>The pocket-book to me she gave;<br>After reproof and counsel sage<br>She bade me write in the first page<br>This naughty action all in rhyme;<br>No food to have until the time,<br>In writing fair and neatly worded,<br>The unfeeling fact I had recorded.<br>Slow I compose, and slow I write;<br>And now I feel keen hunger bite.<br>My mother's pardon I entreat,<br>And beg she'll give me food to eat.<br>Dry bread would be received with joy<br>By her repentant beggar-boy.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Charles+Lamb">Charles Lamb</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=355250" data-title="The Reproof de Charles Lamb" data-description="Mamma heard me with scorn and pride A wretched beggar-boy deride. 'Do you not know,' said I, 'how mean It is to be thus begging seen? If for a week I were not fed, I'm sure I would not beg my bread.' And then away she saw me stalk With a most self..."></div> </div> </div>

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