<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=451087" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Acknowledgement</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">With the ladies' permission, most humbly I'd mention<br>How much we're obliged by all their attention;<br>We sink with the weight of the huge obligation<br>Too long & too broad to admit compensation. <br>For us (and I blush while I speak I declare)<br>The charming enchanters be-torture their hair<br>Till gently it rises and swells like a knoll<br>Thirty inches at least from the dear little poll;<br>From the tip-top of which all peer out together<br>The ribband, the gause & the ostrich's feather;<br>Composing a sight for an Arab to swear at<br>Or huge Patagonian a fortnight to stare at. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then hoops at right angles that hang from ye knees<br>And hoops at the hips in connection with these<br>Set the fellows's presumptuous who court an alliance<br>And ev'ry pretender at awful defiance. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And I have been told (though I must disbelieve<br>For the tidings as fact I would never receive)<br>That billets of cork have supplied the place<br>Of something the Fair-ones imagine a grace;<br>But whether 'tis placed behind or before,<br>The shoulders to swell or the bosom to shoar,<br>To raise a false wen or expand a false bump<br>Project a false hip or protrude a false rump,<br>Was never ascertain'd, and fegs I declare<br>To make more enquiry I never will dare.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Major+Henry+Livingston+Jr.">Major Henry Livingston Jr.</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=451087" data-title="Acknowledgement de Major Henry Livingston Jr." data-description="With the ladies' permission, most humbly I'd mention How much we're obliged by all their attention; We sink with the weight of the huge obligation Too long & too broad to admit compensation. For us (and I blush while I speak I declare) The charmi..."></div> </div> </div>

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