25. Sence bundling is not a thing
That judgment will procure;
Go on young men and bundle then,
But keep your bodies pure.


Since this work went to press we have been favored, by one of our
antiquarian friends in Massachusetts, with a copy of another poetical
blast against the practice of bundling. It was written in the latter
part of the last, or the first decade of the present century, by a
learned and distinguished clergyman settled in Bristol county,
Massachusetts, who was a graduate of Harvard University, and a doctor of
divinity. The original manuscript from which our copy is made, is very
carefully written out, with corrections apparently of a later date, and
now undoubtedly appears for the first time in printed form.


A POEM AGAINST BUNDLING._Dedicated to ye Youth of both Sexes_.

1. Hail giddy youth, inclined to mirth,
To guilty amours prone,
Come blush with me, to think and see
How shameless you are grown.

2. 'Tis not amiss to court and kiss,
Nor friendship do we blame,
But bundling in, women with men,
Upon the bed of shame;