'Now if I don't make the completest mistake'
Description
From the autograph album of Mrs. S. C. Hall (after 1836).
Creator
Dickens, Charles
Source
Autograph Album of Mrs. S. C. Hall.
Date
Rights
Held at The New York Public Library's Archives & Manuscripts, http://archives.nypl.org/brg/19176#c218463. Quoted in Hall, S.C. and Mrs. S.C. Hall. ‘Memories of the Authors of the Age’. Art-Journal, vol.5, 1 January 1866, pp. 21-24; p. 22 and Hotten, John Camden. Charles Dickens, the Story of his Life (John Camden Hotten, 1870), pp. 280-281.
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Bibliographic Citation
Dickens, Charles. 'Now if I don't make the completest mistake.' For Mrs. S.C. Hall (written after 1836): Dickens Search. Eds. Emily Bell and Lydia Craig. Accessed [date]. https://dickenssearch.com/verse/1836-after-Now_if_I_dont_make_the_completest_mistake.
Transcription
Now, if I don't make
The completest mistake
That ever put man in a rage,
This bird of two weathers
Has moulted his feathers,
And left them in some other cage.
The completest mistake
That ever put man in a rage,
This bird of two weathers
Has moulted his feathers,
And left them in some other cage.
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Citation
Dickens, Charles, “'Now if I don't make the completest mistake',” Dickens Search, accessed April 30, 2024, https://www.dickenssearch.com/verse/1836-after-Now_if_I_dont_make_the_completest_mistake.