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LITERARY SECTION

Be lenient with lobsters, and ever kind to crabs,
And be not disrespectful to cuttle-fish and dabs;
Chase not the Cochin-China, chaff not the ox obese,
And babble not of feather-beds in company of geese.
Be tender with the tadpole, and let the limpet thrive,
Be merciful to mussels, don’t skin your eels alive;
When talking to a turtle don’t mention calipee -
Be always kind to animals wherever you may be.

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The Doctor Prescribes.

A lady lately, that was fully sped
Of all the pleasures of the marriage-bed
Ask’d a physician, whether were more fit
For Venus’ sports, the morning or the night?
The good old man made answer, as ‘twas meet,
The morn more wholesome, but the night more sweet.
Nay then i’faith, quothe she, since we have leisure,
We’ll to’t each morn for health, each night for pleasure.

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Scylla Toothlesse.

Scylla is toothlesse; yet when she was young,
She had both tooth enough, and too much tongue;
What should I know of toothlesse Scylla say?
But that her tongue hath worne her teeth away.