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" What news ? what news ? your tidings tell ; Tell me you must and shall — Say why bareheaded you are come, Or why you come at all ? Now Gilpin had a pleasant wit, And loved a timely joke ! And thus unto the calender In merry guise he spoke : I came because... "
The World's Best Poetry ... - Page 150
1904
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Poems, Volume 1

William Cowper - 1786 - 756 pages
...loved a timely joke, And thus unto the Callender In merry guife he fpoke— I came becarjfe your horic would come ; And if I well forebode, My hat and wig will foon be here, They are upon the road. The Callender, right glad to find His friend in merry pin, Return'd...
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Poems, Volume 2

William Cowper - 1788 - 376 pages
...timely joke ; And thus unto the Callender . In merry guife he fpoke : ' , I came becaufe your horfe would come ;' And, if I well forebode, My hat and wig will foon be here, - / They are upon the road. The Callender, right glad to find His friend in merry pin,...
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Poems: By William Cowper, ... In Two Volumes. ...

William Cowper - 1790 - 300 pages
...lov'da timely joke ; And thus unto the Callender In merry guife he fpoke : I came becaufe your horfe would come ; And, if I well forebode, My hat and wig will foon be here, They are upon the road. The Callender, right glad to find His friend in merry pin, Return'd...
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Poems: By William Cowper, of the Inner Temple Esq. In Two Volumes ...

William Cowper - 1793 - 378 pages
...fpoke:— I came becaufe your horfe would corflc; And, if I well forebode, My hat and wig will foon be here—- They are upon the road. The calender, right glad to find His friend in merry pin, Return'd him not a fingle word, But to the houfe went in; Whence ftrait he came with hat and wig ;...
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Satirical,humourous & Familiar Pieces: Prose [No] 1-[2?].

1795 - 94 pages
...thus unto the callender In merry guise he spoke: ''••/ l»came because your horse would ctKne; And, if I well forebode, My hat and wig will soon be here, They are upon the road. The callender, right glad to find His friend in merry pin, Return'd him not a single word, But to the house...
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Poems: By William Cowper, ... In Two Volumes. ...

William Cowper - 1795 - 410 pages
...fpoke :— I came becaufe your horfe would come; And, if I well forebode, My hat and wig will foon be here— They are upon the road. The calender, right glad to find His friend in merry pin, Return'd him not a fingle word, But to the houfe went in; Whence ftraight he came with hat and wig;...
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Poems, Volume 2

William Cowper - English poetry - 1800 - 438 pages
...Say why bare-headed you are come, Or why you come at all. Now Gilpin had a pleasant wit, And lov'da timely joke; And thus unto the calender In merry guise...calender, right glad to find His friend in merry pin, Return'd him not a single word, But to the house went in; Whence straight he came with hat and wig;...
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Poems, Volume 2

William Cowper - 1800 - 394 pages
...lov'da timely joke ; And thus unto the calender In merry guife he fpoke :— I came becaufe your horfe would come ; And, if I well forebode, My hat and wig will foon be here — They are upon the road. The calender, right glad to find His friend in merry pin,...
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The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for ...

History - 1800 - 632 pages
...lov'da timely joke, *d thus unto the callender In merry ftrains he fpoke. " ' I came becaufe your horfe would come } And, if I well forebode, My hat and wig will foon be here, They are upon the road.' " The callender right glad to find His friend in merry pin,...
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Annual Register, Volume 26

Edmund Burke - History - 1800 - 632 pages
...timely joke, And thus unto the callender In merry ftrains he fpoke. " ' I cafme becaufe your horfe would come } And, if I well forebode, My hat and wig will foon be here, They are upon the road." " The callender right glad to find His friend in merry pin,...
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