The Ingoldsby Legends: Or, Mirth and Marvels, Volume 2G. Routledge, 1889 |
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... night , Which rattled the Bard out of bed in a fright , And he ran up the steeple to look at the fight , " Twas in just such another one , ( Names only bother one- Dutch ones indeed are sufficient to smother one- ) In the Netherlands ...
... night , Which rattled the Bard out of bed in a fright , And he ran up the steeple to look at the fight , " Twas in just such another one , ( Names only bother one- Dutch ones indeed are sufficient to smother one- ) In the Netherlands ...
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... night , Sometimes , sobbing outright , While his valet , who often endeavour'd to peep , Declared that " his master was never asleep ! But would sigh , and would groan , slap his forehead , and weep ; That about ten o'clock His door he ...
... night , Sometimes , sobbing outright , While his valet , who often endeavour'd to peep , Declared that " his master was never asleep ! But would sigh , and would groan , slap his forehead , and weep ; That about ten o'clock His door he ...
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... saw , of that poor injured maid , Come each night , with her pale face , his guilt to upbraid ; That if once introduced to his room , thus array'd , And then unmask'd as soon as she'd long enough stay'd A LEGEND OF FRANCE . 37.
... saw , of that poor injured maid , Come each night , with her pale face , his guilt to upbraid ; That if once introduced to his room , thus array'd , And then unmask'd as soon as she'd long enough stay'd A LEGEND OF FRANCE . 37.
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... night had set in ; - ' twas a dark and a gloomy one : - Off went St. Foix to his chamber ; a roomy one , Five storeys high , The first floor from the sky , And lofty enough to afford great facility For playing a game , with the youthful ...
... night had set in ; - ' twas a dark and a gloomy one : - Off went St. Foix to his chamber ; a roomy one , Five storeys high , The first floor from the sky , And lofty enough to afford great facility For playing a game , with the youthful ...
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... night , but addicted himself sadly to drinking , And what moralists say , Is as naughty - to play , To Rouge et Noir , Hazard , Short Whist , Ecarté ; Till these , and a few less defensible fancies Brought the Knight to the end of his ...
... night , but addicted himself sadly to drinking , And what moralists say , Is as naughty - to play , To Rouge et Noir , Hazard , Short Whist , Ecarté ; Till these , and a few less defensible fancies Brought the Knight to the end of his ...
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