English Poetry. William Shenstone. Extent of Cookery. Уильям Шенстон.

William Shenstone (Уильям Шенстон)

Extent of Cookery

   Aliusque et idem.
   (Another and the same).

When Tom to Cambridge first was sent,
A plain brown bob he wore;
Read much, and look'd as though he meant
To be a fop no more.

See him to Lincoln's-Inn repair,
His resolution flag;
He cherishes a length of hair,
And tucks it in a bag.

Nor Coke nor Salkeld he regards,
But gets into the House,
And soon a judge's rank rewards
His pliant votes and bows.

Adieu, ye bobs! ye bags! give place;
Full bottoms come instead;
Good L—d! to see the various ways
Of dressing—a calf's head!

William Shenstone’s other poems:

1. The Invidious
2. On Miss M–‘s’s Dancing
3. Elegy. His Recantation
4. Song (I told my nymph, I told her true)
5. Elegy. On the Untimely Death of a Certain Learned Acquainance

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