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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Think Before You Speak + The Three Wishes + +Author: Catherine Dorset + +Release Date: June 4, 2008 [EBook #25698] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THINK BEFORE YOU SPEAK *** + + + + +Produced by David Wilson. (This file was produced from +images generously made available by The Internet +Archive/American Libraries.) + + + + + + +</pre> + + + + + +<hr class="pg" /> + +<p class="illus"> +<a name="png.001" id="png.001"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span + class="pgmark">i</span><span class="ns">]<br + /></span>FRONTISPIECE<br + /><img src="images/frontis.jpg" width="500" height="495" + alt="" title="" /></p> + + +<h1><a name="png.002" id="png.002"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span + class="pgmark">1</span><span class="ns">]<br + /></span><em>THINK BEFORE YOU SPEAK:</em><br + /><small>OR, THE</small><br + /><big>THREE WISHES</big>.</h1> + +<p class="ctr oneem"><big><i>A TALE.</i></big></p> + +<p class="godwin larger oneem"><small>BY THE AUTHOR OF THE</small><br + />PEACOCK AT HOME.</p> + +<p class="ctr"><img src="images/rule-160.png" width="160" height="12" + alt="" title="" /></p> +<p class="ctr">THIRD EDITION.</p> + +<hr class="dbl" /> + +<p class="godwin"><big><i>LONDON:</i></big><br + />PRINTED FOR M. J. GODWIN,<br + /><small><span class="allsc">AT THE JUVENILE LIBRARY, NO. 41, SKINNER STREET;</span><br + />AND TO BE HAD OF ALL BOOKSELLERS.</small></p> + +<p class="year"><span>1810.</span></p> + +<div class="main fourem"> +<p class="printer"><a name="png.003" id="png.003"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span + class="pgmark">2</span><span class="ns">]<br + /></span>London: Printed by B. McMillan,<br + />Bow Street, Covent Garden.</p><p class="pgbrk noindent"><big class="clxx">}</big></p> + + +<h2><a name="png.004" id="png.004"></a><span class="ns">[p </span><span + class="pgmark">3</span><span class="ns">]<br + /></span>PREFACE.</h2> + +<p class="ctr oneembelow"><img src="images/rule-160.png" width="160" height="12" + alt="" title="" /></p> + +<p>THE following Tale is principally taken from the admirable +Work of Madame de Beaumont (<i>Le Magazin des +Enfans</i>), which formed almost the whole library and the +delight of the children of the last generation, and has hardly +been surpassed by the many excellent productions which +supply the nurseries and school-rooms of the present.</p> + +<p>The story is there told with the simplicity and sprightliness +of which the French language is so peculiarly capable, but +which a literal translation would render not only insipid +but vulgar.</p> + +<p class="pgbrk">In a poetical dress it may possibly give to the young +reader a part of that amusement, which it once afforded +the infancy of the author.</p> + +<h1><a name="png.006" id="png.006"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span + class="pgmark">5</span><span class="ns">]<br + /></span><small>THE</small><br + />THREE WISHES.</h1> + +<hr class="dbl" /> + +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<div><span class="bigcap">T</span>HE sun withdrew his last pale ray,</div> +<div>And clos’d the short and chearless day;</div> +<div>Loud blew the wind, and rain and sleet</div> +<div>Against the cottage casement beat.</div> +</div> +<div class="stanza"><br class="ns" /> +<div>The busy housewife trimm’d her fire,</div> +<div>And drew the oaken settle nigher,</div> +<div><a name="png.007" id="png.007"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span + class="pgmark">6</span><span class="ns">]<br + /></span>And welcom’d home her own good man</div> +<div>To his clean hearth, his pipe, and can;</div> +<div>For Homespun and his bustling wife</div> +<div>Were honest folks in humble life,</div> +<div>Who liv’d contented with their lot,</div> +<div>And lov’d the comforts of their cot.</div> +<div>With willing hand and chearful heart,</div> +<div>Each of life’s burden bore their part,</div> +<div>With patience all its ills withstood,</div> +<div>And thankfully receiv’d the good.</div> +</div> +<div class="stanza"><br class="ns" /> +<div><a name="png.008" id="png.008"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span + class="pgmark">7</span><span class="ns">]<br + /></span>Yet, they were not without their failings:</div> +<div>They lov’d the harvest-home regalings;</div> +<div>On summer evenings on the green</div> +<div>At cricket oft was Homespun seen;</div> +<div>And sometimes, where the sign ensnares</div> +<div>The wearied swain to drown his cares,</div> +<div>He lov’d to quaff the foaming ale,</div> +<div>And listen to a merry tale.</div> +<div>Was there within ten miles a fair—</div> +<div>He and his dame were surely there:</div> +<div><a name="png.009" id="png.009"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span + class="pgmark">8</span><span class="ns">]<br + /></span>For she too lov’d, in trim array,</div> +<div>And scarlet cloak, a holiday.</div> +<div>Ah! then within her pocket burn’d</div> +<div>The long sav’d crown so hardly earn’d,</div> +<div>While in the stall temptation spread</div> +<div>The printed gown or top-knot red;</div> +<div>Nor did her little happy train</div> +<div>For drum or whistle sue in vain.</div> +</div> +<div class="stanza"><br class="ns" /> +<div>Will Rigour’s brow relentless lour,</div> +<div>If pleasure steal from toil <em>one</em> hour?</div> +<div><a name="png.010" id="png.010"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span + class="pgmark">9</span><span class="ns">]<br + /></span>And shall the poor enjoy no ray</div> +<div>Of sunshine through their winter’s day?</div> +<div>Nor pluck the few wild flowers, that bloom</div> +<div>’Midst poverty’s ungenial gloom?</div> +</div> +<div class="stanza"><br class="ns" /> +<div>Now, seated in his wicker chair,</div> +<div>The swain enjoys his homely fare:</div> +<div>His rosy children round him press,</div> +<div>Eager to share the fond caress;</div> +<div>And as his eyes delighted trace</div> +<div>Health and content in each dear face,</div> +<div><a name="png.011" id="png.011"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span + class="pgmark">10</span><span class="ns">]<br + /></span>He scarce desires a happier lot,</div> +<div>His toils unfelt, his cares forgot.</div> +</div> +<div class="stanza"><br class="ns" /> +<div>When supper ended,—grace was said,</div> +<div>The babes were bless’d, and sent to bed,</div> +<div>And o’er the fire the parents sat,</div> +<div>Engag’d in sober, social chat,—</div> +<div>When suddenly a flash of light</div> +<div>Reveal’d to their astonish’d sight</div> +<div>A little form of lovely mien,</div> +<div>Epitome of Beauty’s Queen.</div> +<div><a name="png.014" id="png.014"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span + class="pgmark">11</span><span class="ns">]<br + /></span>Her zone was clasp’d with jewels rare,</div> +<div>And roses bound her auburn hair,</div> +<div>White was her robe, and in her hand</div> +<div>Graceful she wav’d an ivory wand.</div> +</div> + +<p class="illus"><a name="png.012" id="png.012"></a><span class="ns">[opp. p10]<br + /></span><img src="images/fairy.jpg" width="500" height="492" + alt="A little form of lovely mien" title="A little form of lovely mien" /></p> + +<div class="stanza"><br class="ns" /> +<div>Our couple started with surprise,</div> +<div>And star’d at her—with all their eyes,</div> +<div>Not guessing how or whence she came,</div> +<div>What was her nature, or her name.</div> +<div>At length their unexpected guest</div> +<div>The trembling villagers address’d:</div> +<div><a name="png.015" id="png.015"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span + class="pgmark">12</span><span class="ns">]<br + /></span>Mortals! she said, in me behold</div> +<div>A being of no earthly mold:—</div> +<div>But fear me not; I visit earth</div> +<div>To benefit your humble worth;</div> +<div>For this I’ve left the blissful land,</div> +<div>Rul’d by Imperial Oberon’s hand,</div> +<div>And on your cottage I intrude</div> +<div>To pay a debt of gratitude.</div> +<div>For know, my friends, that every year</div> +<div>I’m doom’d a mortal form to wear,</div> +<div><a name="png.016" id="png.016"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span + class="pgmark">13</span><span class="ns">]<br + /></span>And for a time must undergo</div> +<div>The sufferings earthly creatures know.</div> +<div>Sometimes I wing my way a bird;</div> +<div>Sometimes with beasts compelled to herd;</div> +<div>A fish I plunge beneath the deep;</div> +<div>Or in an insect’s form I creep.</div> +<div>Of late it was my fate to wear</div> +<div>The semblance of the timid hare;</div> +<div>And one cold morning in December</div> +<div>(The luckless day you may remember),</div> +<div><a name="png.017" id="png.017"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span + class="pgmark">14</span><span class="ns">]<br + /></span>When winter stern in icy chains</div> +<div>Had bound the desolated plains,</div> +<div>And withered every tender plant,</div> +<div>A hare, compelled by urgent want,</div> +<div>Ventured within your garden pale</div> +<div>To taste your parsley and your kale.</div> +<div>Soon of her steps you saw the trace,</div> +<div>And whistled Fury to the chace.</div> +<div>The fatal scent her track reveals,</div> +<div>And the fierce cur pursued her heels;</div> +<div><a name="png.020" id="png.020"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span + class="pgmark">15</span><span class="ns">]<br + /></span>Vain was her speed! her failing breath</div> +<div>Left her within the jaws of death,</div> +<div>When doubling quick, thus sorely prest,</div> +<div>She sprang for shelter to your breast.</div> +<div>That breast, awake to pity’s plea,</div> +<div>My kind protector! rescued me:</div> +<div>Your generous cares assuag’d my pangs,</div> +<div>And sav’d me from the terrier’s fangs.</div> +<div>’Twas then I vow’d, the very hour</div> +<div>That gave me back my form and power,</div> +<div><a name="png.021" id="png.021"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span + class="pgmark">16</span><span class="ns">]<br + /></span>To seek your humble roof with speed,</div> +<div>And recompense the gentle deed.</div> +</div> + +<p class="illus"><a name="png.019" id="png.019"></a><span class="ns">[opp. p15]<br + /></span><img src="images/hare.jpg" width="500" height="486" + alt="My kind protector! rescued me" title="My kind protector! rescued me" /></p> + +<div class="stanza"><br class="ns" /> +<div>Now, by the honour of a Spright</div> +<div>Who in good actions takes delight,</div> +<div>By Mab, the sovereign of fays,</div> +<div>Who sports beneath the moon’s pale rays,</div> +<div>I grant to you and your good dame</div> +<div>The first Three Wishes that you name!</div> +<div>Think what will best your state amend,</div> +<div>And claim it from your grateful friend!</div> +<div><a name="png.022" id="png.022"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span + class="pgmark">17</span><span class="ns">]<br + /></span>Together you had best advise,</div> +<div>And as you are <em>humane</em>, be <em>wise</em>!</div> +<div>For should you foolishly decide,</div> +<div>By your own choice you must abide;</div> +<div>Nor further does my power extend,</div> +<div>Howe’er dispos’d to be your friend.</div> +</div> +<div class="stanza"><br class="ns" /> +<div>So saying, the benignant fay</div> +<div>Quick thro’ the key-hole whisk’d away.</div> +</div> +<div class="stanza"><br class="ns" /> +<div>Our cottagers from fear relieved,</div> +<div>Scarcely their eyes and ears believ’d:</div> +<div><a name="png.023" id="png.023"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span + class="pgmark">18</span><span class="ns">]<br + /></span>But ah! what passions, long suppress’d,</div> +<div>Were rous’d in each unguarded breast;</div> +<div>Ambition, that had dormant lain,</div> +<div>And Pride, with Luxury in his train;</div> +<div>While Vanity performed her part</div> +<div>In simple Susan’s easy heart!</div> +</div> +<div class="stanza"><br class="ns" /> +<div>Suppose the joy that now abounded,</div> +<div>The exclamations that resounded:</div> +<div>How strange! what luck! what can have brought it?</div> +<div>Good lack! Dear me! Who would have thought it?</div> +<div><a name="png.024" id="png.024"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span + class="pgmark">19</span><span class="ns">]<br + /></span>What shall we wish for? let us ponder.</div> +<div>Lord, how the neighbours will all wonder!</div> +</div> +<div class="stanza"><br class="ns" /> +<div>Quoth Homespun—if ’tis not a dream,</div> +<div>I’ll have a farm, and keep a team.</div> +</div> +<div class="stanza"><br class="ns" /> +<div>A farm! said Susan: on my life,</div> +<div>I’ll be no farmer’s dowdy wife,</div> +<div>To toil and drudge thro’ mud and mire:</div> +<div>I hope you’ll hold your head much higher.</div> +</div> +<div class="stanza"><br class="ns" /> +<div>Well, well, then—shall I be a Squire?—</div> +<div><a name="png.025" id="png.025"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span + class="pgmark">20</span><span class="ns">]<br + /></span>Methinks I should be somewhat proud,</div> +<div>To own the land which once I plough’d.</div> +<div>With money plenty in my bags,</div> +<div>I’d keep my gig and brace of nags;</div> +<div>My cellars should be duly stor’d,</div> +<div>And beef should smoke upon my board:</div> +<div>Besides I’d keep my pack of hounds—</div> +<div>Squire Homespun! Lord how fine it sounds!</div> +</div> +<div class="stanza"><br class="ns" /> +<div>Have it, said Susan, as you will;</div> +<div>But sure My Lord! sounds finer still;</div> +<div><a name="png.026" id="png.026"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span + class="pgmark">21</span><span class="ns">]<br + /></span>Then I should be My Lady: Bless me,</div> +<div>How smart! how beautiful I’d dress me!</div> +<div>Such bonnets, mantles, ruffs, and puffs,</div> +<div>Such gowns, and furbelows, and muffs,</div> +<div>With chains and ear-rings, watch and broche,</div> +<div>And Madam Homespun in her coach:</div> +<div>So grand! so stately! who but me?</div> +<div>How mad my neighbour Barnes will be!</div> +</div> +<div class="stanza"><br class="ns" /> +<div>Peace, said the husband, pr’ythee, peace!</div> +<div>’Tis time this idle talk should cease:</div> +<div><a name="png.027" id="png.027"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span + class="pgmark">22</span><span class="ns">]<br + /></span>Consider what we have at stake!</div> +<div>I fain some friend’s advice would take:</div> +<div>At least we must be wise and wary,</div> +<div>As we were counsell’d by the fairy.</div> +<div>So hasten, dame, and fill the beaker,</div> +<div>And we’ll discuss it o’er our liquor.</div> +</div> +<div class="stanza"><br class="ns" /> +<div>’Tis vain to trace each various plan</div> +<div>Which Susan form’d with her good man.</div> +<div>Or yet how oft they drain’d the cup,</div> +<div>Ere the long conference broke up:</div> +<div><a name="png.028" id="png.028"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span + class="pgmark">23</span><span class="ns">]<br + /></span>But as opinions were divided,</div> +<div>The business still was undecided.</div> +<div>In this dilemma the result</div> +<div>Was—that their pillows they’d consult.</div> +<div>’Tis best to take more time to con it,</div> +<div>Quoth Homespun—so we’ll sleep upon it:</div> +<div>Our choice requires the coolest head;</div> +<div>So rake the fire, and we’ll to bed.</div> +</div> +<div class="stanza"><br class="ns" /> +<div>Susan, the happiest wife on earth,</div> +<div>Set all to rights, and brush’d her hearth;</div> +<div><a name="png.029" id="png.029"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span + class="pgmark">24</span><span class="ns">]<br + /></span>And said, These embers burn so clear,</div> +<div><span class="smc">I wish we had a pudding here</span>!</div> +<div>Methinks ’twould broil so clean and nice;</div> +<div>I’d make it ready in a trice;</div> +<div>She spoke—and in the chimney rumbled</div> +<div>A noise—and down a pudding tumbled!</div> +</div> +<div class="stanza"><br class="ns" /> +<div>The affrighted Susan stood amaz’d,</div> +<div>With tearful eyes, and hands uprais’d,</div> +<div>O’erwhelm’d with grief and self-reproach,</div> +<div>Farewell! to Madam in her coach!</div> +<div><a name="png.032" id="png.032"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span + class="pgmark">25</span><span class="ns">]<br + /></span>Her tongue itself forgot its use,—</div> +<div>Tongue once so ready at excuse!</div> +</div> + +<p class="illus"><a name="png.030" id="png.030"></a><span class="ns">[opp. p24]<br + /></span><img src="images/pudding.jpg" width="500" height="499" + alt="A noise--and down a pudding tumbled!" title="A noise--and down a pudding tumbled!" /></p> + +<div class="stanza"><br class="ns" /> +<div>Mean time the husband storm’d and rated,</div> +<div>Swearing no man was e’er so mated;</div> +<div>And call’d his spouse—like savage shameless,</div> +<div>By ugly words that must be nameless.</div> +<div>To throw our fortune thus away!</div> +<div><ins class="TNsilent" title="Transcriber's note: + original reads 'Are’nt'">Aren’t</ins> you a stupid idiot—hey?</div> +<div>Such want of thought your folly shows,</div> +<div><span class="smc">I wish the pudding on your nose</span>!</div> +<div><a name="png.033" id="png.033"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span + class="pgmark">26</span><span class="ns">]<br + /></span>The words escap’d, he gain’d his wish.</div> +<div>The pudding, rising from its dish,</div> +<div>On Goody Homespun’s nose was stuck</div> +<div>So fast, no power on earth could pluck</div> +<div>The sad incumbrance away.</div> +<div>What could be done? Oh, hapless day!</div> +<div>She cried, she stamp’d, she tore her hair;</div> +<div>The fatal pudding still hung there.</div> +</div> + +<p class="illus"><a name="png.034" id="png.034"></a><span class="ns">[opp. p26]<br + /></span><img src="images/nose.jpg" width="500" height="498" + alt="The fatal pudding still hung there" title="The fatal pudding still hung there" /></p> + +<div class="stanza"><br class="ns" /> +<div>Oh! I shall die, said she, with shame!</div> +<div>Now, Master—who is most to blame?</div> +<div><a name="png.036" id="png.036"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span + class="pgmark">27</span><span class="ns">]<br + /></span>My face again I ne’er can show,</div> +<div>I shall be hooted as I go—</div> +<div>What will the neighbours say—Oh! oh!</div> +</div> +<div class="stanza"><br class="ns" /> +<div>The sorrowing husband now repented;</div> +<div>And Susan in her turn resented:</div> +<div>While he, with looks most melancholy,</div> +<div>Confessed he’d equall’d her in folly;</div> +<div>Yet strove his weeping spouse to cheer:</div> +</div> +<div class="stanza"><br class="ns" /> +<div>Don’t be cast down, said he, my dear!</div> +<div><a name="png.037" id="png.037"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span + class="pgmark">28</span><span class="ns">]<br + /></span>Consider! we have one stake more.</div> +<div>We’ll wish of wealth an endless store,</div> +<div>And you shall have such gay rich clothes,</div> +<div>That folks won’t think about your nose:</div> +<div>Nay, it will ornament your face,</div> +<div>When cover’d with a golden case:</div> +<div>Therefore, my dearest, calm your passion!</div> +<div>We’ll say nose-jewels are the fashion.</div> +</div> +<div class="stanza"><br class="ns" /> +<div>Sad Susan wav’d her head in woe,</div> +<div>The pudding too wav’d to and fro,</div> +<div>While she exclaim’d, I tell you, No,</div> +<div><a name="png.038" id="png.038"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span + class="pgmark">29</span><span class="ns">]<br + /></span>You barbarous man! you talk in vain:</div> +<div>I’ll never shew my face again:</div> +<div>I’ll have no case of gold, not I;</div> +<div>But lay me down at once, and die!</div> +</div> +<div class="stanza"><br class="ns" /> +<div>Nay, said her mate—it shan’t be so—</div> +<div>I’d sooner our last hope forego.</div> +<div>Our third wish will your peace restore,</div> +<div>We are but where we were before.</div> +<div>I will my luckless wish revoke,</div> +<div>Recall the words I rashly spoke,</div> +<div><a name="png.039" id="png.039"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span + class="pgmark">30</span><span class="ns">]<br + /></span>And to relieve you from this evil,</div> +<div><span class="smc">I wish the pudding at the devil</span>!</div> +</div> +<div class="stanza"><br class="ns" /> +<div>Obedient to this prudent wish,</div> +<div>The pudding fell, and in its dish</div> +<div>Flew up the chimney as it came,</div> +<div>And thus restor’d the suffering dame;</div> +<div>Who, freed from anguish, now could show</div> +<div>Her own dear nose—<i>in statu quo</i>:</div> +<div>Yet scarce recovered, laugh’d and cried,</div> +<div>’Twixt joy—and disappointed pride.</div> +</div> + +<p class="illus"><a name="png.040" id="png.040"></a><span class="ns">[opp. p30]<br + /></span><img src="images/chimney.jpg" width="500" height="494" + alt="Flew up the chimney as it came" title="Flew up the chimney as it came" /></p> + +<div class="stanza"><br class="ns" /> +<div><a name="png.042" id="png.042"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span + class="pgmark">31</span><span class="ns">]<br + /></span>Quoth Homespun—To my mind, my dame,</div> +<div>A tricking fairy is that same!</div> +<div>Why did she meddle thus about us?</div> +<div>To tempt us first, and then to flout us?—</div> +<div>But let us not complain, my Sue;</div> +<div>The fairy to her word was true,</div> +<div>And if our schemes are overthrown,</div> +<div>In faith, the fault is all our own.</div> +<div>A wholesome lesson she has taught,</div> +<div>Though it is somewhat dearly bought,</div> +<div><a name="png.043" id="png.043"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span + class="pgmark">32</span><span class="ns">]<br + /></span>And should she call another day,</div> +<div>She’ll find it is not thrown away—</div> +<div>For as we have regained our senses,</div> +<div>We’ll lay aside our vain pretences,</div> +<div>Temper our hopes with moderation,</div> +<div><span class="smc">And suit our wishes to our station</span>.</div> +</div> +</div> + +<p class="finito"><small>THE END.</small></p> + + + + +<p class="printer">London: Printed by B. 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