EPIGRAMATIC AND EPITHALMIC LINES.

New Zealand Colonist and Port Nicholson Advertiser, Volume I, Issue 93, 20 June 1843, Page 3

EPIGRAMATIC AND EPITHALMIC LINES.

On the interesting union of John Woo leg, Esq., of Bristol, to Miss Mary Ann Morgan.

Thou simplest of the Wooleg tribe ! Whom every maid admires ! To this thou'lt feelingly subscribe — “ Love’s roses have their Bryers.” Shame! Wooley, shame upon thy folly, To bring our sex to such discredit; Thy tale is truly melancholy, And would that I had never read it!

O, naughty unromantic knight! i As in thy wooded* fortress lay The captive maid, half, dead with fright, From all her friends, away— How could’st thou squeeze her snowy hand So tightly through the door, And render this the boasted land Of chivalry no more.

The Bristol men, I always knew, “ Hogs” every wag doth call; But Bristol women are to you The greatest bores of all! King’sf daughter thoii wert fain to wed! With dow’ry half a plumb ! But, ah ! a beggar shares thy bed ! And thou look’st monstrous glum !

Of base “ acquisitiveness” Thou surely hast the “ organ Well, if thou’st lost ’tother Miss Thou’st gained sweet Nanby Morgan !! ! A. H;

Donaghadee, Oct. 4

* Mr. W. is a timber merchant, f Miss Louisa King was the lady personated by Miss Morgan at the hymeneal altar.