Ashton, John, b. 1834 · London, Chatto and Windus · leaf 264
did wipe, That work kills me almost;Yet if you needs must hear the pipe, Pray bind me to a post. This was done; the pipe struck up, and every one begantheir involuntary dance, to the deUght of the father, and thegreat disgust of the stepmother and the friar, who was almost dead, While others danced… … The lad led them all into the street, where every one joined 244 Chap-Books of the EightecntJi Century. in the mad scene, until his father asked him to stop. Thei;i thefriar summoned him before the proctor, and the gravity of thecourt was disturbed by Jacks playing his pipe at the proctorsrequest.…
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