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Title: The Emperor's Rout
Author: Unknown
Release Date: March 22, 2008 [EBook #24894]
Language: English
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M. Gauci delt. Printed by C. Motte 23. Leicester Sqre.
3 THE
EMPEROR’S ROUT.
ILLUSTRATED BY COLOURED PLATES.
LONDON:
CHARLES TILT, 86, FLEET STREET.
MDCCCXXXI.
4 LONDON:
BRADBURY AND EVANS, PRINTERS,
BOUVERIE STREET.
5 THE EMPEROR’S ROUT.
As the Emperor Moth1 sat one evening in May,
Fanned by numberless wings in the moon’s silver ray,
6 While around him the zephyrs breathed sweetest perfume,
Thus he spoke to his dwarf with the Ragged white plume:2
"That vain Butterfly’s Ball, I hear, was most splendid,
And, as the world says, very fully attended,
Though she never asked us, but assigned as a cause,
We were all much too heavy to gallope and waltz.
What impertinence this, want of grace to ascribe
To the Lord of the whole Lepidopterous tribe;
I too’ll give a ball, and such folks to chastise,
I’ll not be at home to these pert butterflies.
7 Bid the Empress 3 come hither, and we’ll talk about
What arrangements to make for a capital rout."
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M. Gauci delt. Printed by C. Motte 23. Leicester Sqre.
THE INVITATION.
The Empress obeyed her lord’s summons with speed,
And proceeded her visiting tablets to read,
That those of her subjects, whose homage was booked
In that coveted record, might not be o’erlooked.
Then the Bufftip4 began to write each moth a card,
Having one for herself just by way of reward.
First ask,
says the Emperor, "the Glory of Kent,5
On having much beauty my mind is quite bent;