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Rh "'T is the best sound I've heard," quoth he, "since my palm

Presented Eve her apple!

When Faith is all, 't is an excellent sign,

That the Works and Workmen both are mine."

15.

He passed Tommy Tyrwhitt, that standing jest,

To princely wit a Martyr:

But the last joke of all was by far the best,

When he sailed away with "the Garter"!

"And"—quoth Satan—"this Embassy's worthy my sight,

Should I see nothing else to amuse me to night.

With no one to bear it, but Thomas à Tyrwhitt,

This ribband belongs to an 'Order of Merit'!"

16.

He stopped at an Inn and stepped within

The Bar and read the "Times;"