. Whims and oddities : in prose and verse. ied, by the marble Apollo: but did impassioneddamsel ever dote, and wither, beside the pedestal of thispreposterous effigy ? or, rather is not the unseemly emblemaccountable for the coyness and proverbial reluctance ofmaidens to the approaches of Love ? I can believe in his dwelling alone in the heart—seeingthat he must occupy it to repletion;—in his constancy,because he looks sedentary and not apt to roam. That heis given to melt—from his great pinguitude. That heburneth with a flame, for so all fat burneth—and hath 28 ON THE POPULAR CUPID. languishi
. Whims and oddities : in prose and verse. ied, by the marble Apollo: but did impassioneddamsel ever dote, and wither, beside the pedestal of thispreposterous effigy ? or, rather is not the unseemly emblemaccountable for the coyness and proverbial reluctance ofmaidens to the approaches of Love ? I can believe in his dwelling alone in the heart—seeingthat he must occupy it to repletion;—in his constancy,because he looks sedentary and not apt to roam. That heis given to melt—from his great pinguitude. That heburneth with a flame, for so all fat burneth—and hath 28 ON THE POPULAR CUPID. languishings—like other bodies of his tonnage. That hesighs—from his size.— I dispute not his kneeling at ladies feet—since it is theposture of elephants,—nor his promise that the homageshall remain eternal. I doubt not of his dying,—being ofa corpulent habit, and a short neck.—Of his blindness-—with that inflated pigs cheek. But for his lodging inBelindas blue eye, my whole faith is heretic—^br shehath never a sty in SON OF THE SLEEPLESS ! 29 •v-w
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