 | 1910 - 992 pages
...Dobson cries. So soon, d' ye call it! Death replies: Since I was here before 'T is six-and- thirty years at least, And you are now fourscore. So much the worse, the clown rejoined, To spare the aged would be kind; However, see your search be legal And your authority, —... | |
 | 1884 - 308 pages
...d'ye call it ! Death replies. Surely, my friend, you're but in jest ; Since I was here before 'Tis six-and-thirty years at least, And you are now four-score....regal ? Else you are come on a fool's errand, With but a secretary's warrant. Besides, you promised me three warnings, Which I have looked for nights... | |
 | Buddha - 2001 - 148 pages
...soon, d' ye call it! Death replies: Surely, my friend, you're but in jest; Since I was here before T is six-and-thirty years at least, And you are now fourscore. So much the worse, the clown rejoined, To spare the aged would be kind; However, see your search be legal And your authority, —... | |
 | Henry Clark Warren - 2005 - 521 pages
...is six-and-thirty years at least, And you are now fourscore. So moon the worse, the clown rejoined, To spare the aged would be kind ; However, see your search be legal And your authority, — Is 't regal? Else yon are come on a fool's errand, With but a secretary's warrant. Besides, yon... | |
 | Charles W. Eliot - 2005 - 529 pages
...soon, d' ye call it! Death replies: Surely, my friend, you're but in jest; Since I was here before 'Tis six-and-thirty years at least, And you are now fourscore. So much the worse, the down rejoined, To spare the aged would be kind; However, see your search be legal And your authority,... | |
 | English poetry - 1801 - 224 pages
...» Death replies : » Surely , my friend , you're but in jest , » Since I was here before , » 'Tis six-and-thirty years at least, » And you are now...Clown rejoin'd » To spare the aged would be kind : » Besides, you promis'd me Three Warnings , » Which I have louk'd for nights and mornings. « I... | |
 | Poetry - 1870 - 264 pages
...Death replies; " Surely, my friend, you're but in jest ! Since I was here before 'Tis six and forty years at least, And you are now fourscore ! " " So...clown rejoin'd ; " To spare the aged would be kind ; Beside, you promis'd me Three Warnings, Which I have look'd for nights and mornings ! " " I know,"... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1880 - 1106 pages
...call it ! " Death replies ; " Surely, my friend, you 're but in jest ! Since I was here before 'T is air ! 'T is in the gentle moonlight ; Is floating in day's rejoined ; " To spare the aged would be kind : However, see your search be legal ; And your authority,... | |
 | Henry Davenport Northrup - 1888 - 790 pages
...: " Surely, my friend, you're but in jest I more ! " 457 Since I was here before Tis Btx-and-thirty years at least, And you are now fourscore." "So much the worse," the clown rejoined ; "To spare the a^ed would be kind : Beside, you promised me three warnings, Which I have... | |
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So soon, d'ye call it !' Death replies. ' Surely, my friend, you're but in jest ; Since I was here before 'Tis six-and-thirty years at least, And you are now fourscore. 
