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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.

— Richard Harris Barham The Ingoldsby Legends (1837)

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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!

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A servant's too often a negligent elf;
If it's business of consequence, Do it yourself!

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But wherever they live, or whenever they die,
They'll never get quit of young Hamilton Tighe.

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Here's a corpse in the case with a sad swell'd face,
And a 'Crowner's Quest' is a queer sort of thing!

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