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Now haste ye, my handmaidens, haste and see
How he sits there and glow'rs with his head on his knee!
The Ingoldsby Legends (1837)
A servant's too often a negligent elf;
If it's business of consequence, Do it yourself!
The Ingoldsby Legends (1837)
But wherever they live, or whenever they die,
They'll never get quit of young Hamilton Tighe.
The Ingoldsby Legends (1837)
Here's a corpse in the case with a sad swell'd face,
And a 'Crowner's Quest' is a queer sort of thing!
The Ingoldsby Legends (1837)
And six little Singing-boys,—dear little souls!
In nice clean faces, and nice white stoles,
Came in order due,
Two by two,
Marching that grand refectory through.
The Ingoldsby Legends (1837)
Never was heard such a terrible curse!
But what gave rise
To no little surprise,
Nobody seem’d one penny the worse!
The Ingoldsby Legends (1837)
And the priests, with awe,
As such freaks they saw,
Said, “The Devil must be in that little Jackdaw!”
The Ingoldsby Legends (1837)