Heard you were having some buttered toast and that seems like something I should be involved in
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Bougie London Literary Woman, cat concierge, occasional academic. Book on 18th-century women's letters forthcoming from Chatto & Windus. natashasimonova.com
![To a villanous, good-for-nothing Printer.
May all your columns fall in pi,
Each chase be gnawed by rust;
Weak, weak as water be your lye, --
Your cases filled with dust.
May all your sticks untrue be made,
Your stands too high or low;
No page upon the stone be laid
Where it should rightly go.
May all your rules be short and rough,
Your bodkin but a nail;
Your balls be like a barber’s puff,
And rats your pelts assail.
May crooked stand of type each kind,
Your press hard run for oil;
Your galleys ten degrees inclined,
Your paste be vermin’s spoil.
May all your devils idle be,
Yet look to you for bread;
And may you ne’er from duns be free,
Until your’re [sic] dead – dead – dead!](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:x5l4kbf5viqpewfma77pmmex/bafkreibptklfj2rywhjelmevavqncp2bs6cd573d5bledl5upeleh54lsy)
