Woodstock; or, the Cavalier by Sir Walter Scott
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But that they came not in by swarmes
To pay there. Night doth invite to bed again, The grand Commissioners were lain, But then the thing did heave amain, It busled, And with great clamor fil'd their eares, The noyse was doubled, and their feares; Nothing was standing but their haires, They nuzled. Oft were the blankets pul'd, the sheete Was closely twin'd betwixt their feete, It seems the spirit was discreete And civill. Which makes the poore Commissioners Feare they shall get but small arreares, And that there's yet for cavaliers One divell. They cast about what best to doe; Next day they would to wisemen goe, To neighb'ring towns some cours to know; For schollars Come not to Woodstock, as before, And Allen's dead as a nayle-doore, |
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