Samuel Bishop (1731-1795). The Touch Stone. William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. 1909. The Book of Georgian Verse

William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Georgian Verse. 1909.

The Touch Stone

By Samuel Bishop (1731–1795)


A FOOL and knave with different views
For Julia’s hand apply;
The knave to mend his fortune sues,
The fool to please his eye.

Ask you how Julia will behave,	5
Depend on’t for a rule,
If she’s a fool she’ll wed the knave—
If she’s a knave, the fool.