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And supersedeth quite the use of the glow-worm.


 * (Of pastry he got store within the palace,)
 * With hasty steps, wrapp'd cloak, and solemn looks,
 * Incognito upon his errand sallies,
 * His smelling-bottle ready for the allies;
 * He pass'd the hurdy-gurdies with disdain,
 * Vowing he'd have them sent on board the galleys;
 * Just as he had made his vow, it 'gan to rain,

Therefore he called a coach, and bade it drive amain.


 * "Polluted jarvey! Ah, thou filthy hack!
 * Whose springs of life are all dried up and dead,
 * Whose linsey-wolsey lining hangs all slack,
 * Whose rug is straw, whose wholeness is a crack;
 * And evermore thy steps go clatter-clitter;
 * Whose glass once up can never be got back,
 * Who prov'st, with jolting arguments and bitter,

That 'tis of modern use to travel in a litter.


 * For all corn! thou snail-creeper to and fro,
 * Who while thou goest ever seem'st to stop,
 * And fiddle-faddle standest while you go;
 * I' the morning, freighted with a weight of woe,