 | Motilal M. Munshi - 1904 - 562 pages
...replies: " Surely, my friend, you 're but in jest ; Since I was here before, 'Tis six and forty or fifty years at least. And you are now fourscore." " So much...kind: However, see your search be legal; And your authority—Is 't regal ? Else you are come on a fool's errand, With but a secretary's warrant. Besides,... | |
 | 1904 - 542 pages
...six-and-thirty years at least, Anil you are now fourscore." " So much the worse," the clown rejoined ; " To spare the aged would be kind : However, see your search be legal ; And your authority, — is 't regal ? Elsa you are come on a fool's errand, With but a secretary's warrant. Beside, you... | |
 | Phineas Garrett - 1904 - 896 pages
...Death replies: "Surely, my friend, you're but in jest! Since 1 was here before Tis si x-and-thirty years at least, And you are now fourscore." " So much the worse," the clown rejoined; "To spare the ag£d would be kind : However, see your search be legal ; And your authority... | |
 | Lionel Strachey - 1905 - 316 pages
...six-and-thirty years at least, And you are now fourscore." " So much the worse," the clown rejoined; " To spare the aged would be kind ; However, see your...regal? Else you are come on a fool's errand, With but a secretary's warrant. Besides, you promised me three warnings, Which I have looked for nights... | |
 | Lionel Strachey - 1905 - 320 pages
...d'ye call it?" Death replies; " Surely, my friend, you're but in jest ! Since I was here before 'Tis six-and-thirty years at least, And you are now fourscore." " So much the worse," the clown rejoined; " To spare the aged would be kind ; However, see your search be legal ; And your authority... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1908 - 398 pages
...call it ? " Death replies. " Surely, my friend, you 're but in jest ! Since I was here before 'T is six-and-thirty years at least, And you are now fourscore." " So much the worse," the clown rejoined " To spare the aged would be kind : However, see your search be legal ; And your authority... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner, John William Cunliffe, Ashley Horace Thorndike, Harry Morgan Ayres, Helen Rex Keller, Gerhard Richard Lomer - 1917 - 816 pages
...six-and-thirty years at least, And you are now fourscore." uSo much the worse," the clown rejoined: "To spare the aged would be kind. However, see your search be legal ; And your authority — is 't regal? Else you are come on a fool's errand, With but a secretary's warrant. Besides, you... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1921 - 506 pages
...Death replies : ' Surely, my friend, you 're but in jest ; Since I was here before, 'Tis six and thirty years at least, And you are now fourscore." ' So much the worse ! " the clown rejoined ; ' To spare the aged would be kind : Besides, you promised me three warnings, Which I have... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1925 - 412 pages
...call it ! " Death replies ; " Surely, my friend, you 're but in jest ! Since I was here before "T is six-and-thirty years at least, And you are now fourscore." "So much the worse," the clown rejoined ; "To spare the aged would be kind : However, see your search l>e legal ; And your authority,... | |
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So soon, d'ye call it !' Death replies. ' Surely, my friend, you're but in jest ; Since I was here before 'Tis six-and-thirty years at least, And you are now fourscore. 
