 | Rossiter Johnson - 1877 - 312 pages
...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 — is 't regal? Else you are come on a fool's errand, With but a secretary's warrant. Besides, you... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1877 - 308 pages
...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... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1877 - 630 pages
...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,... | |
 | Aesopus - 1878 - 378 pages
...repli " Surely, my friend, you 're but in jest ; Since I was here before, 'Tis six and forty or fifty years at least, And you are now fourscore." "So much...However, see your search be legal ; And your authority — Is 't regal ? Else you are come on a fool's errand, With but a secretary's warrant. Besides, you... | |
 | Imperial pocket reader - 1878 - 202 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 : However, see your search be legal ; And your authority... | |
 | Henry Troth Coates - 1881 - 1138 pages
...return'd !" old Dodson cries. gay, " Surely, my friend, you're but in jest ! Since I was here before 'Tis ve been tired all day without repast, And timely rest...wanted; but, fair virgin, This will restore all soon. but a secretary's warrant. Besides, you promised me Three Warnings, Which I have look'd for nights... | |
 | Passages, John Allen Giles - 1881 - 744 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.'...legal ! And your authority, is't regal ? Else you come on a fool's errand, With but a Secretary's warrant. Besides you promised me three warnings, Which... | |
 | English poets - 1889 - 596 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." " So much the worse," the clown rejoined ; " To spare the aged would be kind : However, see your search be legal ; And your authority... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1881 - 842 pages
...Death replies: ' Surely, my friend, you 're but in jest I Since I was here before 'TIs six-and-ihirty years at least. And you are now fourscore.' 'So much the worse,' tho down rejoined ; ' To spare the aged would be kind : However, see your search be legal ; And your... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1882 - 984 pages
...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 l^gal ; And your authority,... | |
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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. 
