Woodstock; or, the Cavalier by Sir Walter Scott
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And meant i' th' chamber (fie, fie, fie)
To scumber. Some thought the cunning cur did mean To eat their mutton (which was lean) Reserv'd for breakfast, for the men Were thrifty. And up one rises in his shirt, Intending the slie cur to hurt, And forty thrusts made at him for't, Or fifty. But empty came his sword again. He found he thrust but all in vain; An the mutton safe, hee went amain To's fellow. And now (assured all was well) The bed again began to swell, The men were frighted, and did smell O' th' yellow. From heaving, now the cloaths it pluckt The men, for feare, together stuck, And in their sweat each other duck't. They wished A thousand times that it were day; 'Tis sure the divell! Let us pray. |
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