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Updated: June 7, 2025
Many a letter such as this must Thomas Betson have written at his lodgings, sitting so late over his work that he must needs write to his friends when he ought to be sleeping and date his letters: 'At London, on our Lady day in the night, when I deem ye were in your bed, for mine eyne smarted, so God help me. And when he came to make up his annual accounts he had the hardest work of all to do.
I had not reckoned Love contained so much of pine and pain; * And soul distress until I came for thee to pain and pine Never my heart knew weariness, until that eve I fell * In love wi' thee, and prostrate fell before those glancing eyne! My very foes have mercy on my case and moan therefor; * But thou, O heart of Indian steel, all mercy dost decline.
"'Mr M'Lucre, what will you take to shut your eyes for an hour? "'I'll no take a hundred pounds, was my answer. "'I'll make it guineas, quoth he. "Surely, thought I, my eyne maun be worth pearls and diamonds to the East India Company; so I answered and said "'A thousand pounds, cried he. "'A bargain be't, said I. I think, however, had I stood out I might hae got mair.
So she laid her hands on her parts, but the Mount of Venus escaped from between them, by reason of its greatness and plumpness; and the Caliph at once turned and went away, wondering and reciting this couplet, "I looked on her with loving eyne * And grew anew my old repine:"
God's peace be with you in the hour of need, * Peace sent by lover patient bearing woe!" Then for the excess of his desire and ecstasy he repeated these coupletes also, "If I to aught save you, O lords of me, incline; * Ne'er may I win of you my wish, my sole design! Who doth comprise all loveliness save only you? * Who makes the Doomsday dawn e'en now before these eyne?
I understood what her looks implied and answered her with an eye-glance, "I will sacrifice my soul for thee." And the tongue of the case wrote in our hearts these lines: How many a lover with his eyebrows speaketh * To his beloved, as his passion pleadeth: With flashing eyne his passion he inspireth * And well she seeth what kits pleading needeth.
'I ax pardon, but if you'd gie me just a bit of elbow-room for a minute like, I'd hold my babby up, so that he might see daddy's ship, and happen, my master might see him. He's four months old last Tuesday se'nnight, and his feyther's never clapt eyne on him yet, and he wi' a tooth through, an another just breaking, bless him!
Now the Wazir Al-Fazl had a son like the full moon when sheeniest dight, with face radiant in light, cheeks ruddy bright, and a mole like a dot of ambergris on a downy site; as said of him the poet and said full right, I bear no blame: 'tis all my hear and eyne; * So leave thy blaming, let me yearn and pine."
'He kept company with my poor sister as is dead for better nor two year, and then he left off coming to see her and went wi' another girl, and it just broke her heart. 'He don't look now as if he iver could play at that game again, said Alice; 'he has had a warning fra' the Lord. Whether it be a call no one can tell. But to my eyne he looks as if he had been called, and was going.
Well I mind him, that I do, comin' by this very street to school; ay, an' he minds me too, I warrant. "I see him now, I do, skippin' along street fresh an' nimblelike, his eyne chock full o' mischief lookin' round fur to see some poor soul to play a prank on. It do feel strange-like to have him a-sittin' by my elbow today.
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