AN ACROSTIC 
 
 Composed Extempore on Reading the Announcement of 
 the Marriage — at Broadway — of James Orchard 
 Halliwell, Esq. of Alfred Place , London , to the 
 eldest Daughter of Sir Thomas Phillipps, 
 
 Bart . of Middle Hill , Worcestershire . 
 
 “hail, wedded love!” 
 
 P— ROCEED, proceed, proud Hymen ! 
 
 H — ow can we wonder why men 
 H— ail more and more thy name now, 
 
 A— nd so resound thy fame now ! 
 
 I— nspired seem all around us, — 
 
 L/— et belles or beaux but bound us, 
 
 L— o ! how employed each tongue is — 
 
 L — ouder thy praise still rung is !— 
 
 L— est some dolt his voice raises, 
 
 I — enquiring why these praises, 
 
 I— n wedlock’s bands, know, bound so 
 
 W— e’ve now a pair, who’re — crown’d so ! — 
 P— lain ’tis that no connection 
 E — ’er blended more affection ! — 
 
 P — rosperity, Fate, send them ! 
 
 L — ong from all ills defend them ! 
 
 S — weetly from thy store still 
 
 L — ife’s blessings on them pour still ! 
 
 C. €♦ 
 
 Great Totham Hall, Essex, August, 1842 . 
 
 GRBAT TOTHAM t PRINTED AT CHARLES CLARK*S PRIVATE PRESS.