A Dialogue, Between Chamber-pot and Frying Pan.


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  • Chamber-pot
    Stand off! nor with rude Smut disgrace
    The Glories of my brighter face!

    Frying-pan
    Tho not so glib my Face be seen,
    Yet all I'me sure's as sweet within.

    Chamber-pot
    You in the Kitchin drudge alone,
    None handles you but greasie Joan!

    Frying-pan
    I always lend, but you receive;
    Which is most brave, to take, or give?

    Chamber-pot
    Oft Maid and Mistriss fetch me out,
    To wash their their Lilly-hand and Snowt.

    Frying-pan
    You're civil sure, and use I hope
    With Water to allow 'em Soap.

    Chamber-pot
    Yes, such as ne're, at worst, indures
    To scowre so foul a Mouth as yours.

    Frying-pan
    O what a fragrant Hogo rose
    But now, to twinge a swounding Nose?

    Chamber-pot
    Such as when you were made a Tool,
    To Fry the Break-fast for the Fool.

    Frying-pan
    All bulg'd and yellow you must fall
    At last behind some ruin'd Wall;
    Or melt, and to your Masters loss
    Leave both at once your stink and dross.

    Chamber-pot
    Take then, since me you'll thus Incense,
    These marks of my Benevolence:
    Such Water as if Fame says true,
    Diana on Acteon threw;
    Which as some learned men surmize,
    With flap of Fox put out his Eyes:
    And least of Rary show he brag,
    Bewitcht poor Hunter into Stag.

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