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I was between
A man and a boy, A hobble-de-hoy,
A fat, little, punchy concern of sixteen.

— Richard Harris Barham

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Thrice happy's the wooing that's not long a-doing,
So much time is saved in the billing and cooing.

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)

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