Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science - Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873 by Various
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by Lely, Kneller, etc., would in his hands have become a resort of
rare interest and hospitality.] [Footnote 10: In what is known as "The Charter-House Play," which describes some boyish orgies and their subsequent punishment, the latter is described in the pathetic lines: Now the victim low is bending, Now the fearful rod descending, Hark a blow! Again, again Sounds the instrument of pain. Goddess of mercy! oh impart Thy kindness to the doctor's heart: Bid him words of pardon say-- Cast the blood-stained scourge away. In vain, in vain! he will not hear: Mercy is a stranger there. Justice, unrelenting dame, First asserts her lawful claim. This is aye her maxim true: "They who sin must suffer too." When of fun we've had our fill, Justice then sends in her bill, And as soon as we have read it, Pay we must: she gives no credit. There is some rather fine doggerel too, in which the doctor--the Dr. |
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