{"product_id":"2940150430204","title":"Hints to Servants","description":"Once on a time a Rev'rend Dean\u003cbr\u003eThere lived, (and you know whom I mean,)\u003cbr\u003eKeen as a hawk each fault to seize,\u003cbr\u003eAnd Swift to blame, as slow to please;\u003cbr\u003eSwell'd up with pride to height of tumour,\u003cbr\u003eThough all admired his dogged humour.\u003cbr\u003eBut since our Pompey knew not how\u003cbr\u003eTo speak, as 'twere, but in 'bow wow!'\u003cbr\u003eThe Muse invites me to rehearse\u003cbr\u003eHis constant bark in doggrel verse:\u003cbr\u003eKeen irony can't hope to chime\u003cbr\u003eWithout some small relief from rhyme,\u003cbr\u003eThough where you'd feel the sharpest tingle,\u003cbr\u003eYou lose the smart amidst the jingle!\u003cbr\u003eDoubtless (like Swift) we've now-a-days\u003cbr\u003eBoth lords and ladies shy of praise,\u003cbr\u003eOf errors, ills, for ever mumbling,\u003cbr\u003eYet love 'em for the sake of grumbling.\u003cbr\u003eHad Swift known how to hold his dish up,\u003cbr\u003e[5]I'm told he might have been a Bishop.\u003cbr\u003eI've tried to make him look more recent,\u003cbr\u003eAnd dock'd him where he's quite indecent.\u003cbr\u003eOn one thing you may quite rely,—\u003cbr\u003eI am no busy, base Paul Pry.\u003cbr\u003eMy best advices really flow\u003cbr\u003eFrom what I really 'happ'n' to know,\u003cbr\u003eNor could escape in any wise,\u003cbr\u003eSave shutting both my ears and eyes.\u003cbr\u003eMy book may sell, or fall dead flat,—\u003cbr\u003eYet Meadows makes me safe from that;\u003cbr\u003eSince, to inspire, I've given him some\u003cbr\u003eOf Master's truly 'precious rum,'\u003cbr\u003eDeeming him best of all the bunch—\u003cbr\u003eBut mum! for what relates to 'Punch!'\u003cbr\u003eAnd may each critic's 'ifs and buts'\u003cbr\u003eBut vie with his good-humoured cuts:\u003cbr\u003eFor I profess the constant aim\u003cbr\u003eOf yielding ev'ry one I name\u003cbr\u003e(Thus pleasing all, e'en to the letter)\u003cbr\u003eEither a laugh—or something better.\u003cbr\u003eNow if I've well explained my plan,\u003cbr\u003eWhy, farewell Master! farewell Man!\u003cbr\u003eAnd free from fuss, I make no bones\u003cbr\u003eTo sign,","brand":"Bronson Tweed Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47149316997360,"sku":"2940150430204","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940150430204_p0.jpg?v=1763745928","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940150430204","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}