BY

JOHN HENRY MILLS.

COMEDIAN.

That sport best pleases, that doth least know how :
Where zeal strives to content, and the contents
Die in the zeal of that which it presents,
Their form confounded makes most form in mirth;
When great things lab'ring perish in their birth.

SHAKSPEARE, L. L.I.

Some rhyme a neebor's name to lash,

Some rhmye (vain thought!) for needfu' cash;
Some rhyme to court the country clash,

Dr raise a din ;,

For me, an aim 1 never fash;

I rhyme for fun.

H. BURNS.

BALTIMORE:

PRINTED BY G. DOBBIN & MURPHY, 10, MARKET-STREET,

FOR COLE & I. BONSAL

........

1808.

THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

"DISTRICT OF MARYLAND, to wit.

BE IT REMEMBERED..... That on the seventh day of June, in the thirty-second year of the Independence of the United States of America, SAMUEL COLE & ISAAC BONSAL, of the said district have deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words following, to wit:-" POETIC TRIFLES, BY JOHN HENRY MILLS, COMEDIAN

That sport best pleases, that doth least know how :
Where zeal strives to content and the contents
Die in the zeal of that which it presents,

Their form confounded makes most form in mirth;
When great things lab'ring perish in their birth.

........

SHAKSPEARE, L. L. L.

Some rhyme a neebor's name to lash,

Some rhyme (vain thought!) for needfu' cash;
Some rhyme to court the country clash,

Or raise a din;

For me an aim I never fash;

I rhyme for fun.

R. BURNS."

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PHILIP MOORE,

Clerk of the District of Maryland,