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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=431349" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Bucking-Tub</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">IF once in love, you'll soon invention find<br>And not to cunning tricks and freaks be blind;<br>The youngest 'prentice, when he feels the dart,<br>Grows wondrous shrewd, and studies wily art.<br>This passion never, we perceive, remains<br>In want from paucity of scheming brains.<br>The god of hearts so well exerts his force,<br>That he receives his dues as things of course.<br>A bucking-tub, of which a tale is told,<br>Will prove the case, and this I'll now unfold;<br>Particulars I heard some days ago,<br>From one who seemed each circumstance to know.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">WITHIN a country town, no matter where,<br>Its appellation nothing would declare,<br>A cooper and his wife, whose name was Nan,<br>Kept house, and through some difficulties ran.<br>Though scanty were their means, LOVE thither flew;<br>And with him brought a friend to take a view;<br>'Twas Cuckoldom accompanied the boy,<br>Two gods most intimate, who like to toy,<br>And, never ceremonious, seek to please<br>Go where they will, still equally at ease;<br>'Tis all for them good lodging, fare, or bed;<br>And, hut or palace, pleasantly they tread.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">IT happened then, a spark this fair caressed,<br>And, when he hoped most fully to be blessed,<br>When all was ready to complete the scene,<br>And on a point:--if naught should intervene<br>Not NAMED howe'er will quite enough suffice,<br>When suddenly the husband, by surprise,<br>Returned from drinking at an ale-house near,<br>just when, just when:--the rest is pretty clear.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">THEY curst his coming; trouble o'er them spread;<br>Naught could be done but hide the lover's head;<br>Beneath a bucking-tub, in utmost haste,<br>Within the court, our gay gallant was placed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">THE husband, as he entered, loudly cried,<br>I've sold our bucking-tub. The wife replied,<br>What price, I pray?--Three crowns rejoined the man;<br>Then thou'rt a silly ass, said mistress Nan;<br>To-day, by my address, I've gained a crown,<br>And sold the same for twenty shillings down:<br>My bargain luckily the first was made;<br>The buyer, (who of flaws is much afraid)<br>Examines now if ev'ry part is tight;<br>He's in the tub to see if all be right.<br>What, blockhead, would'st thou do without thy wife?<br>Thou huntest taverns while she works for life;<br>But necessary 'tis for her to act,<br>When thou art out, or naught would be exact.<br>No pleasure ever yet received have I;<br>But take my word, to get it now I'll try.<br>Gallants are plenty; husbands should have wives;<br>That, like themselves, lead gay or sober lives.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I PRYTHEE softly, wife, the husband said;<br>Come, come, sir, leave the tub, there's naught to dread;<br>When you are out, I'll ev'ry quarter scrape,<br>Then try if water from it can escape;<br>I'll warrant it to be as good as nice,<br>And nothing can be better worth the price.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">OUT came the lover; in the husband went;<br>Scraped here and there, and tried if any vent;<br>With candle in his hand looked round and round,<br>Not dreaming once that LOVE without was found.<br>But nothing he could see of what was done;<br>And while the cooper sought to overrun<br>The various parts, and by the tub was hid,<br>The gods already noticed thither slid;<br>A job was by the deities proposed,<br>That highly pleased the couple when disclosed;<br>A very diff'rent work from what within<br>The husband had, who scraped with horrid din,<br>And rubbed, and scrubbed, and beat so very well,<br>Fresh courage took our gay gallant and belle;<br>They now resumed the thread so sadly lost,<br>When, by the cooper's coming, all was crossed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">THE reader won't require to know the rest;<br>What passed perhaps may easily be guessed.<br>'Tis quite enough, my thesis I have proved;<br>The artful trick our pair with raptures moved.<br>Nor one nor t'other was a 'prentice new;<br>A lover be:--and wiles you'll soon pursue.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=La+Fontaine">La Fontaine</a><div class=q>
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And not to cunning tricks and freaks be blind;
The youngest 'prentice, when he feels the dart,
Grows wondrous shrewd, and studies wily art.
This passion never, we perceive, remains
In want from paucity o..."></div>
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