 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1866 - 236 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 fourscore."...However, see your search be legal ; And your authority — is 't regal ? Klse you are come on a fool's errand, With but a secretary's warrant. Beside, you... | |
 | John William Stanhope Hows - 1866 - 574 pages
...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 clown rejoined ; " To spare the aged would be kind : Besides, you promised me Three Warnings, Which I have... | |
 | English poetry - 1867 - 336 pages
...it P " Death replies ; " Surely, my friend, you 're but in jest : Since I was here before, 70 T is six-and-thirty years at least, And you are now fourscore."...would be kind : However, see your search be legal; 75 And your authority, is 't regal ? Else you come on a fool's errand, With but a Secretary's warrant.... | |
 | Benjamin W. Atwell - 1867 - 106 pages
...Death replies: " Surely, my friend, you're but ia jest; Since I was here before 'Tis 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 : Besides, you promised me three warnings, Which I have... | |
 | Andrew Comstock, Philip Lawrence - 1808 - 596 pages
...friend, i you 're but in jest'/' | Since I was here before | 'T is six-and-thirty years' , at least,b | And you are now fourscore." | "So much the worse',"...However, see your search be legal ; | And your authority — -, is 't re gal ? | Else you are come on a fool's' errand, | With but a secretary's warrant. |... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1868 - 710 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 fourscore." " So...clown rejoin'd, " To spare the aged would be kind. 6 However, see your search is legal ; And your authority — is't regal ? Else you are come on a fool's... | |
 | Charles A. Wiley - 1869 - 456 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 four-score." " So much the worse ! " the clown rejoined : " To spare the aged would be kind : Besides, you promised me three warnings, Which I have... | |
 | English poems - 1870 - 722 pages
...call it ? " Death replies : "Surely, my friend, you're but in jest! Since I was here here before 'Tis 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... | |
 | James Cornwell - 1870 - 152 pages
...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 clown rejoined : " To spare the aged would be kind : Besides, you promised me Three Warnings, Which I have... | |
 | James Cornwell - 1870 - 156 pages
...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 clown rejoined : " To spare the aged would be kind : Besides, 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. 
