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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: xxxiy. Oh for a forty-parson-power (4) to chaunt Thy praise, Hypocrisy Oh for a hymn Loud as the Virtues thou dost loudly vaunt, Not practise Oh for trumps of cherubim Or the ear-trumpet of my good old aunt, Who, through her spectacles at last grew dim, Drew quiet consolation through its hint When she no more could read the pious print. XXXV. She was no hypocrite at least, poor soul, But went to heaven in as sincere a way As any body on the Elected Roll, Which portions out upon the judgment day Heaven's freeholds, in a sort of doomsday scroll, Such as the conqueror William did repay His knights with, lotting other's properties Into some sixty thousand new knights' fees. XXXVI. I can't complain, whose ancestors are there, Erneis, Radulphus?eight-and-forty manors (If that my memory doth not greatly err) Were their reward for following Billy's banners; And though I can't help thinking 'twas scarce fair To strip the Saxons of their hydes, (5) like tanners; Yet as they founded churches with the produce, You'll deem, no doubt, they put it to a good use. XXXVII. The gentle Juan flourished, though at times He felt like other plants called Sensitive, Which shrink from touch, as monarchs do from rhymes, Save such as Southey can afford to give. Perhaps he longed, in bitter frosts, for climes In which the Neva's ice would cease to live Before May-day: perhaps, despite his duty, In royalty's vast arms he sighed for beauty: XXXVIII. Perhaps?but, sans perhaps, we need not seek For causes young or old: the canker-worm Will feed upon the fairest, freshest cheek, As well as further drain the withered form: Care, like a house-keeper, brings every week His bills in, and however we may storm, The...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217203296 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217203299 |
| Weight | 0.31 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.21 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 86 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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