RICHARDSON’S.
NEW VALENTINE WRITER
Derby. Published for T Richardson.
RICHARDSON’S
NEW
LONDON FASHIONABLE
GENTLEMAN’S
Valentine Writer
OR, THE
LOVER’S OWN BOOK
FOR THIS YEAR:
Containing a very choice selection of
ORIGINAL AND POPULAR VALENTINES,
WITH
APPROPRIATE ANSWERS.
Love rules the court, the camp, the grove,
And men below, and saints above;
For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
DERBY:
THOMAS RICHARDSON;
SIMPKIN AND MARSHALL, LONDON.
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THE
NEW LONDON FASHIONABLE
GENTLEMAN’S
VALENTINE WRITER.
FROM A GENTLEMAN.
As I wander’d about ’tother day full of thought,
With the subject of love I was very much caught;
Whether best to live single, or best with a wife,
I assure you within me was terrible strife.
Thinks I to myself, one is stupid alone,
And I’m sure I have read, “two is better than one;”
So a wife I have fixed on, that wife shall be you,
If it please you, and I will be constant and true.
LADY’S ANSWER.
“To be constant and true”—your promise is fair,
And I with your lines am quite smit I declare;
So I, at your word, take you, and send you this line,
To say I rejoice to be your Valentine.
FROM A YOUNG MAN NEARLY OUT OF HIS TIME, TO HISFAVOURITE LADY.
I have only a few months to serve,
When I shall be out of my time;
To keep thee I’ll strain every nerve,
Devoting to thee all my prime.
Then spite of relations and friends,
Consent, my dear girl, to be mine;
I’ll make for their loss great amends,
If you’ll be my fond Valentine.
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ANSWER OF COMPLIANCE.
That you promise fair, I confess,
And shall not your offer decline;
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