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TOO GREAT A SACRIFICE by ANONYMOUS

First Line: "THE MAID, AS BY THE PAPERS DOTH APPEAR"
Last Line: "BUT HE, WHEN THUS SHE BROUGHT HIM TO THE SCRATCH, / LIT HIS CIGAR AND THREW AWAY HIS MATCH"
Subject(s): SMOKING; TOBACCO;PIPES;CIGARS;CIGARETTES;
THE maid, as by the papers doth appear,
Whom fifty thousand dollars made so dear,
To test Lothario's passion, simply said:
"Forego the weed before we go to wed.
For smoke take flame; I'll be that flame's bright
fanner:
To have your Anna, give up your Havana."
But he, when thus she brought him to the scratch,
Lit his cigar and threw away his match.


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