. Christmas cheer [electronic resource]: in three courses, more than ordinary ones, and where every guest will get his dessert, and a taste of those choice spirits, "that cheer but not inebriate," . which yon may plainly sec,(Ine me a horsr—not worth too much—and leave the rest to he vaulted on his sIcliI—a sorry sort of knack,Because tin- owner felt convinced he neer should see it spur and whip he plied to reach the borders of the pit,Hut thence tin horse refused to budge an atom—deuce a bit! The lickd him with their sticks—by Romans fasces calld—And rattled pot

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. Christmas cheer [electronic resource]: in three courses, more than ordinary ones, and where every guest will get his dessert, and a taste of those choice spirits, "that cheer but not inebriate," . which yon may plainly sec,(Ine me a horsr—not worth too much—and leave the rest to he vaulted on his sIcliI—a sorry sort of knack,Because tin- owner felt convinced he neer should see it spur and whip he plied to reach the borders of the pit,Hut thence tin horse refused to budge an atom—deuce a bit! The lickd him with their sticks—by Romans fasces calld—And rattled potsherds in his ears, and cried (ice! gee! and hawldThe Tribunes pushed his haunches, and a crowd of little boys,Hearing amjihortr filld with stones, kiekd up a mighty length, when both the man and horse were scard at such a din,All of a heap, lead over heels, they straightway bundled in;And scarcely had they disappeared, when, as the stories say,The giilph closed up, like sliding traps you witness at the long live all this company—and Curtius long live- he,And when another leap takes place, may I be there to see,And on it write another lay, wherever it may [ 93 ] JLaxftdbtt}

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