 From the duty of giving you something for drink, And a matter of money to put in your poke; But, as for the guilders, what we spoke Of them, as you very well know, was in joke. Beside, our losses have made us thrifty: A thousand guilders! come, take fifty!  Reading-literature - Page 316by Harriet Taylor Treadwell, Margaret Free, Thomas Henry Briggs, Henry William Shryock - 1918Full view - About this book
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pages
...knowing wink, " Our business was done at the river's brink; [sink, We saw with our eyes the vermin And what's dead can't come to life, I think. So, friend,...shrink From the duty of giving you something for drink. And a matter of money to put in your poke; But, as for the guilders, what we spoke Of them, as you... | |
 | 1865 - 820 pages
...pay this sum to a wandering fellow With a gipsy coat of red and yellow 1 'Beside,' quoth the may or with a knowing wink, ' Our business was done at the...shrink From the duty of giving you something for drink. And a matter of money to put in your poke ; But as for the guilders, what we spoke Of them, as you... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1850 - 436 pages
...with Rhenish. To pay this sum to a wandering fellow With a gipsy coat of red and yellow ! " Beside," quoth the Mayor with a knowing wink, " Our business...brink ; " We saw with our eyes the vermin sink, " And what 's dead can't come to life, I think. " So, friend, we 're not the folks to shrink " From the duty... | |
 | Half hours - 1856 - 676 pages
...with Rhenish. To pay this sum to a wandering fellow With a gipsy coat of red and yellow ! " Beside," quoth the Mayor with a knowing wink, " Our business...to shrink " From the duty of giving you something to drink, " And a matter of money to put in your poke ; " Bat, as for the guilders, what we spoke "... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - 1861 - 562 pages
...corporation too. To pay this sum to a wandering fellow With a gypsy coat of red and yellow ! " Besides," quoth the mayor, with a knowing wink, " Our business...river's brink : We saw with our eyes the vermin sink, So, friend, we're not the folks to shrink From the duty of giving you something to drink, And a matter... | |
 | Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 224 pages
...with Rhenish. To pay this sum to a wandering fellow, With a gipsy coat of red and yellow ! "Beside," quoth the Mayor, with a knowing wink, " Our business was done at the river's brink ; And what's dead can't come to life, I think. So, friend, we're not the folks to shrink From the duty... | |
 | Coventry Patmore - 1862 - 372 pages
...Rhenish. . To pay this sum to a wandering fellow With a gipsy coat of red and yellow ! ' Besides,' quoth the Mayor, with a knowing wink, ' Our business...shrink From the duty of giving you something for drink, And a matter of money to put in your poke ; But, as for the guilders, what we spoke Of them, as you... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1863 - 430 pages
...Rhenish. To pay this sum to a wandering fellow With a gipsy coat of red and yellow ! ' ' Beside, " quoth the Mayor with a knowing wink, " Our business...shrink From the duty of giving you something for drink, And a matter of money to put in your poke ; But, as for the guilders, what we spoke Of them, as you... | |
 | 302 pages
...with Bhenish. To pay this sum to a wandering fellow With a gipsy coat of red and yellow ! " Beside," quoth the Mayor, with a knowing wink, " Our business...we're not the folks to shrink "From the duty of giving yon something for drink, " And a matter of money to put in your poke; " But, as for the guilders, what... | |
 | Coventry Patmore - 1863 - 390 pages
...with Rhenish. To pay this sum to a wandering fellow With a gypsy coat of red and yellow ! ' Besides,' quoth the Mayor, with a knowing wink, ' Our business...brink ; We saw with our eyes the vermin sink, And what 's dead can 't come to life, I think. So, friend, we 're not the folks to shrink From the duty... | |
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