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 363
in to see: Ah ! graceless wretch, hast spent thine all.And brought thyself to penurie ? All this my boding mind misgave,I therefore left this trusty friend; Let it now shield thy foul disgrace,And all thy shame and sorrows end. Sorely sheut ^ wi this rebuke. Sorely shent was the heir of Linne; His… … Then round his neck the coid he drew,And sprang aloft with his bodie, When lo I the ceiling burst in twain.And to the ground came tumbling he. Astonyed lay the heir of Linne,Ne knew if he were live or dead; At length he looked, and saw a bill,And in it a key of gold so red. He took the bill, and…
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