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father, Think you, made a deal of brass?' And she answered: 'Sir, I rather Should imagine that he has.' UWINS, then, his whiskers scratching, Leer'd upon the maiden's face; And her hands with ardor catching, Folded her in his embrace. 'La, Sir! let alone--you fright me!' Said the daughter of the Jew: 'Dearest! how these eyes delight me! Let me love thee, darling, do!' 'Vat is dish?' the bailiff mutter'd, Rushing in with fury wild; 'Ish your muffins so vell butter'd Dat you darsh insult ma shild?' 'Honorable my intentions, Good ABEDNEGO, I swear! And I have some small pretensions, For I am a Baron's heir. If you'll only clear my credit, And a thousand give or so, She's a peeress; I have said it! Don't you twig, ABEDNEGO?' 'Datsh a very different matter!' Said the bailiff, with a leer; 'But you musht not cut it fatter Than ta slish will shtand, ma tear! If you seeksh ma approbation, You must quite give up your rigsh; Alsho, you mosht join our nation, And renounch ta flesh of pigsh.' * * * * * At a meeting of the Rabbis, Held about the Whitsuntide, Was this thorough-paced Barabbas Wedded to his Hebrew bride. All his former debts compounded, From the spunging-house he came; And his father's feelings wounded With reflections on the same.' It is a very dear marriage for UWINS, for on visiting his father the Baron, that incensed nobleman tells the double-dyed apostate never to cross his threshold again, and directs JOHN the porter to kick him into the street. The order is anticipated: 'Forth rushed I. O. UWINS, faster Than all winking, much afraid That the orders of the master Would be punctually obeyed; Sought his club, and there the sentence Of expulsion first he saw: No one dared to own acquaintance With a bailiff's son-in-law. Uselessly down Bond-street strutting, Did he greet his friends of yore; Such a universal cutting Never man received before. Till at last his pride revolted; Pale, and lean, and stern, he grew; And his wife REBECCA bolted With a missionary Jew. Ye who read this doleful ditty, Ask ye where is UWINS now? Wend your way through London city, Climb to Holborn's lofty brow; Near the sign-post of 'The Nigger,' Near the baked-potato shed, You may see a ghas
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