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... Writing Courtiers Inventions . Logicians Laborious Writers On a Club of Sots Holland . Women . Epigrams of • AUTHOR . Samuel Butler . PAGE 530 " 530 • . 530 530 530 530 531 531 531 531 . 531 532 532 532 532 533 Edmund Waller . On a ...
... Writing Courtiers Inventions . Logicians Laborious Writers On a Club of Sots Holland . Women . Epigrams of • AUTHOR . Samuel Butler . PAGE 530 " 530 • . 530 530 530 530 531 531 531 531 . 531 532 532 532 532 533 Edmund Waller . On a ...
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... Write Raleigh in thy records of renown ! Him let the school - boy bless if he behold His master's box produced , for when he sees The thumb and finger of authority Stuffed up the nostrils : when hat , head , and wig Shake all ; when on ...
... Write Raleigh in thy records of renown ! Him let the school - boy bless if he behold His master's box produced , for when he sees The thumb and finger of authority Stuffed up the nostrils : when hat , head , and wig Shake all ; when on ...
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... off , And tumbled in a fit . Ten days and nights , with sleepless eye , I watched that wretched man , And since , I never dare to write As funny as I can . THE BRIEFLESS BARRISTER . A BALLAD . AN Attorney was MISCELLANEOUS . 67.
... off , And tumbled in a fit . Ten days and nights , with sleepless eye , I watched that wretched man , And since , I never dare to write As funny as I can . THE BRIEFLESS BARRISTER . A BALLAD . AN Attorney was MISCELLANEOUS . 67.
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... write , ne reade . Four nobles a week , then , I will give thee , For this merry jest thou hast showne unto mee : And tell the old abbot , when thou comest home , Thou hast brought him a pardon from good King John . THE BAFFLED KNIGHT ...
... write , ne reade . Four nobles a week , then , I will give thee , For this merry jest thou hast showne unto mee : And tell the old abbot , when thou comest home , Thou hast brought him a pardon from good King John . THE BAFFLED KNIGHT ...
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... write and say so ! And you , learned Clerks , who ' re not given to roam , Stick close to your books , nor lose sight of decorum ; Don't visit a house when the master's from home ! Shun drinking , and study the " Vita Sanctorum ...
... write and say so ! And you , learned Clerks , who ' re not given to roam , Stick close to your books , nor lose sight of decorum ; Don't visit a house when the master's from home ! Shun drinking , and study the " Vita Sanctorum ...
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