Poem by Samuel Johnson

On Hearing Miss Thrale Consulting with a Friend About a Gown and Hat

Wear the gown and wear the hat,
Snatch thy pleasures while they last;
Hadst thou nine lives, like a cat,
Soon those nine lives would be pass'd.

1. To Myrtilis - The New Year's Offering
2. To Mrs. Thrale on Her Completing Her Thirty-Fifth Year
3. Parody of a Translation from the Medea of Euripides
4. To Miss --
5. On Lyce - An Elderly Lady

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