ns and ends. Pardon my
blots; I am glad you like your book. I wish it had been half as worthy
of your acceptance as "John Woolman." But 'tis a good-natured book.

[Miss Fryer was a school-fellow of Mrs. Moxon's.

I append another letter, undated, to the same lady. It belongs obviously
to an earlier period, but the exact position is unimportant:--]

LETTER 600

CHARLES LAMB TO Miss FRYER

[No date.]

My dear Miss Fryer, By desire of Emma I have attempted new words to the
old nonsense of Tartar Drum; but _with_ the nonsense the sound and
spirit of the tune are unaccountably gone, and _we_ have agreed to
discard the new version altogether. As _you_ may be more fastidious in
singing mere silliness, and a string of well-sounding images without
sense or coherence--Drums of Tartars, who use _none_, and Tulip trees
ten foot high, not to mention Spirits in Sunbeams &c,--than we are, so
you are at liberty to sacrifice an enspiriting movement to a little
sense, tho' I like LITTLE-SENSE less than his vagarying younger sister
NO-SENSE--so I send them----

The 4th line of 1st stanza is from an old Ballad.

Emma is looking weller and handsomer (as you say) than ever. Really, if
she goes on thus improving, by the time she is nine and thirty she will
be a tolerable comely person. But I may not live to see it.--I take
Beauty to be _catching_-- a Cholera sort of thing--Now, whether the
constant presence of a handsome object--for there's only two of us--may
not have the effect------but the subject is delicate, and as my old
great Ant* used to say--"Andsome is as andsome duzz"--that was my
great Ant's way of spelling----

Most and best kind things say to yourself and dear Mother for all your
kindnesses to our Em., tho' in truth I am a little tired with her
everlasting repetition of 'em. Yours very Truly,

CHS LAMB.

* Emma's way of spelling Miss _Umfris_, as I spell her
_Aunt_.

LOVE WILL COME

_Tune: "The Tartar Drum"_

I

Guard thy feelings, pretty Vestal,
From the smooth Intruder free;
Cage thine heart in bars of chrystal,
Lock it with a golden key;
Thro' the bars demurely stealing--
Noiseless footstep, accent dumb,
His approach to none revealing--
Watch, or watch not, LOVE WILL COME.
His approach to none revealing--
Watch, or watch not, Love will come--Love,
Watch, or watch