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That the people of earth to the present day,

Attend to his summons and freely obey:

Tinkers, tanners, cobblers, all,

Are roused from rest at his royal call,

And shuffle their shoes on before it is light,

To trudge to the workshop. Eu. I warrant you're right;

I know to my cost, by the cloak that I lost;

It was owing to him I was robbed and beguiled.

For a feast had been made for a neighbour's child,

To give it a name; and I went as a guest,

And sat there carousing away with the rest;

But drinking too deep, I fell soundly asleep;

And he began crowing; and I never knowing,

But thinking it morning, went off at the warning,

(With the wine in my pate, to the city gate)

And fell in with a footpad was lying in wait,

Just under the town; and was fairly knocked down;

Then I tried to call out; but before I could shout,

He stripped me at once with a sudden pull,

Of a bran new mantle of Phrygian wool. Peis. Then the kite was the monarch of Greece heretofore Hoo. Of Greece? Peis. and instructed our fathers of yore,

On beholding a kite, to fall down and adore Eu. Well, a thing that befell me, was comical quite,

I threw myself down on beholding a kite;

But turning my face up to stare at his flight,

With a coin in my mouth, forgetting my penny,

I swallowed it down, and went home without any. Peis. In Sidon and Egypt the Cuckoo was king;

They wait to this hour for the Cuckoo to sing;

And when he begins, be it later or early,

They reckon it lawful to gather their barley Eu. Ah, thence it comes our harvest cry,

Cuckoo, Cuckoo, to the passers-by. Peis. At an era moreover of modern date,