Some lines from the comic verse of Thomas Hood, for reading aloud.
For reading aloud. These lines come from the comic poem Huggins and Duggins: A Pastoral after Pope by Thomas Hood (1799-1845). Huggins and Duggins are trading verses in praise of each one’s own best girl.
When Peggy’s dog her arms imprison,
I often wish my lot was hisn;
How often I should stand and turn,
To get a pat from hands like hern.
Note: The dialect words his’n (=his) and her’n (=hers) go back to Middle English hisen and hiren. The OED’s earliest evidence for his’n is from around 1425, in the Laud Troy-book, a poem about the Siege of Troy, by an unknown author.
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