The children's book; a collection of the best and most famous stories and poems in the English language (1910)
Scudder, Horace Elisha, 1838-1902 · Boston, Houghton, Mifflin and company · leaf 362
ne, Now well-a-day, and woe is me,For when I was the Lord of Linne.I never wanted gold nor fee. But many a trusty friend have I, And why should I feel dole or care ? I 11 borrow of them all by turns,So need I not be never bare. But one, I wis, was not at home ; Another had paid his gold away… … To beg my bread from door to door,I wis, it were a brenniug ^ shame ;To rob and steal it were a sin; To work, my limbs I cannot frame. Now I 11 away to the lonesome lodge.For there my father bade me wend :When all the world should frown on me,I there should find a trusty friend. Away then hied the…
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