This short poem was found in a late Victorian copy of Evelina by Frances Burney which was purchased at the Hungerford Arcade on the 18th of August 2018
May’s Poem
To Mistress Punctuality
I offer most shamefacedly
A present which will come so late
I dare not write the intended date
Nor will I add the givers name
It matters not from who it came
If only it shall win her praise
And forever read here that
This is May’s
Happy Hunting
Stuart Miller-Osborne
