Notes and Things

When people say, “I’ve told you fifty times,”
         They mean to scold, and very often do;
When poets say, “I’ve written fifty rhymes,”
         They make you dread that they’ll recite them too;
In gangs of fifty, thieves commit their crimes;
         At fifty love for love is rare, ‘tis true,
But then, no doubt, it equally as true is,
A good deal may be bought for fifty Louis.