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" I would not be a serving-man To carry the cloak-bag still, Nor would I be a falconer The greedy hawks to fill ; But I would be in a good house, And have a good master too ; But I would eat and drink of the best, And no work would I do. "
The works of Beaumont and Fletcher, with an intr. by G. Darley - Page 95
by Francis Beaumont - 1840
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The little French lawyer. The tragedy of Valentinian. Monsieur Thomas. The ...

Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher - 1811 - 574 pages
...mourning.] Amended in 1?50. Act *.] THE KNIGHT OF THE BURNING PESTLE. (Act 4. But I would be in a good house, And have a good master too; But I would eat...and drink of the best, And no work would I do. This is that keeps life and soul together, mirth! This is the philosopher's stone 'that they write so much...
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The Works of Beaumont and Fletcher: In Fourteen Volumes: with an ..., Volume 1

Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher - 1812 - 562 pages
...still, Nor would I be a falconer The greedy hawks to fill; But I would be in a good house, ISingt. And have a good master too ; But I would eat and drink of the best t And no work would I do. This is it that keeps life and soul together, mirth! This is the philosopher's...
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American Quarterly Review, Volume 22

Robert Walsh - 1837 - 504 pages
...falconer, The greedy hawks to fill ; But I would live in a good house, And have a good master too, And I would eat and drink of the best, And no work would I do.' In the mean time, it is funny enough to see a whelp of a young Lord Byron abusing me, of whose circumstances...
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Foster's Cabinet Miscellany: A Series of Publications on Various ..., Volume 3

1837 - 598 pages
...falconer, The greedy hawks to fill; But I would live in a good house, And have a good master too, And I would eat and drink of the best, And no work would I do.' In the mean time, it is funny enough to see a whelp of a young Lord Byron abusing me, of whose circumstances...
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Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart, Volume 3

John Gibson Lockhart - 1839 - 426 pages
...the cloak-bag still, Nor would I be a falconer, The greedy hawks to fill; But I would be in a good house, And have a good master too, But I would eat and drink of the best, And no work would I do.' * In the mean time, it is funny enough to see a whelp of a young Lord Byron abusing me, of whose circumstances...
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Memoirs of the life of sir Walter Scott [by J.G. Lockhart].

John Gibson Lockhart - 1839 - 430 pages
...the cloak-bag still, Nor would I be a falconer, The greedy hawks to fill ; But I would be in a good house, And have a good master too, But I would eat and drink of the best, And no work would I do.' * In the mean time, it is funny enough to see a whelp of a young Lord Byron abusing me, of whose circumstances...
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The Works of Beaumont & Fletcher: The Text Formed from a New ..., Volume 2

Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher - 1843 - 592 pages
...the cloak-bag still, Nor would I be a falconer The greedy hawks to fill ; But I would be in a good house, And have a good master too ; But I would eat...and drink of the best, And no work would I do. This is it that keeps life and soul together, mirth ; this is the philosopher's stone that they write so...
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Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart, Volume 1

John Gibson Lockhart - 1845 - 836 pages
...the cloak-bug still. Nor would I be a falconer, The greedy hawks to fill ; But I would be in a good house, And have a good master too, But I would eat and drinlf of the best, And no work would I do.'a In the meantime, it is funny enough to see n whelp of...
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Introduction to American Literature: Or, The Origin and Development of the ...

Eliphalet L. Rice - 1846 - 432 pages
...the cloak-bag still, Nor would I be a falconer The greedy hawks to fill ; But I would be in a good house, And have a good master too ; But I would eat and drink of the best, And no work would I do. For Jillian of Berry she dwells on a hill, And she hath good beer and ale to sell, And of good fellows...
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Narrative of the life of sir Walter Scott, bart., begun by himself and ...

John Gibson Lockhart - 1848 - 428 pages
...falconer, the greedy hawks to fill ; But I would be in a good house, and have a good master too, For I would eat and drink of the best, and no work would I do." In the meantime, it is funny enough to see a whelp of a young Lord Byron abusing me, of whose circumstances...
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