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As little red riding hood's wolf howl'd amain, Fear shook all his limbs and unsettled his brain, But the horrors he suffered could ne'er be surpass'd When little cock robins sad funeral passed -- When Bluebeard for blood loudly howled o'er his wife, And sister Ann pleaded so well for her life, Matts favorite spectre dissolved into air And he gave up his spirits a prey to despair -- To his Parent he bowed, and now penitent grown, Cried, "thy strength and my empty pretensions I own. "In vain were my arts to supplant thee on earth, "For immortal, Oh mother, thou art in thy birth -- "Behold me in shame and in penitence sunk "Take all my Romances and e'en take The Monk "But spare me since thus I acknowledge my crime "My epilogues, sonnets, and Lady-like rhyme; Mother Goose, as her son was in penitence sunk Only took his Romances and scenes of the Monk
