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The Vicar of Wakefield
The Vicar of Wakefield

my life, grief you know is dry, let us have a bottle of the best gooseberry wine, to keep up our spirits. I have wept so much at all sorts of elegies of late, that without an enlivening glass I am sure this will overcome me; and Sophy, love, take your guitar, and thrum in with the boy a little.’

  

An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog.

  

Good people all, of every sort, Give ear unto my song; And if you find it wond’rous short, It cannot hold you long.

  

In Isling town there was a man, Of whom the world might say, That still a godly race he ran, Whene’er he went to pray.

  

A kind and gentle heart he had, To comfort friends and foes; The naked every day he clad, When he put on his cloaths.

  

And in that town a dog was found, As many dogs there be, Both mungrel, puppy, whelp, and hound, And curs of low degree.

  

This dog and man at first were friends; But when a pique began, The dog, to gain some private ends, Went mad and bit the man.

  

Around from all the neighbouring streets, The wondering neighbours ran, And swore the dog had lost his wits, To bite so good a man.

  

The wound it seem’d both sore and sad, To every Christian eye; And while they swore the dog was mad, They swore the man would die.

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