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. On Seeing a Bust of Mrs. Montague
3. Drury-Lane Prologue Spoken by Mr. Garrick
4. To Mrs. Thrale on Her Completing Her Thirty-Fifth Year
5. On the Death of Stephen Grey, F.R.S.

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