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In brief, I don't stick to declare, Father Dick,
So they call him for short, is a regular brick;
A metaphor taken—I have not the page aright—
From an ethical work by the Stagyrite.

— 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!

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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.

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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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