Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 76
you will not once ask me my task to for-sake,Else you give me your kingdom, land, river, and lake.The king promised a promise he never could break.When a huge pair of pincers that made his knees quakeWere produced by the barber with threatening shake— Now, said he, we 11 go on with the shaving!… … And there must be, beside those, ten thousand as stout;And before you could pull every separate sprout,I would be everlastingly—gone up the spout!It may amuse you and the crowd, I ve no doubt,But its murder for me ! Take the crown,—take the gout!Take the land with its gold, take the sea with its…
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