On Hearing Miss Thrale Consulting With A Friend About A Gown And Hat Poem by Samuel Johnson

On Hearing Miss Thrale Consulting With A Friend About A Gown And Hat

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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.

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Susan Williams 20 October 2015

I can just see the man sitting impatiently whilst his lady shops and shops and shops

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Samuel Johnson

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