The Blue Field (27 page)

HERE LIES
WILLIAM HART
HE WAS SAID TO BE A
DESCENDANT
OF THE
POET
SHAKESPEARE

R.I.P.

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These Victorian Valentines are not, as you might suppose, pretty -pretty or simpering, but are mocking and mischievous, taunting the young women for whom they were destined with possessing long noses or spots on their faces, or accusing the young men of being idle boasters, bar-loungers and cads. The rhymes are as rude as the pictures. One goes like this:

You advertise your charms in a very noisy way,

     Resolved to have a sweetheart, if it's ever to be done,

But after all your mighty efforts,
there seems a strange delay,

     And while other girls have Lovers, alas you've nary none!

To
COMPTON MACKENZIE
in affectionate regard

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ISBN: 9781448204069
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