 | Rossiter Johnson - 1890 - 394 pages
...call it? " Death replies. " Surely, my friend, you 're but in jest ! Since I was here before 'T ia 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... | |
 | Leonard Benton Seeley - 1891 - 398 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.'...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... | |
 | Leonard Benton Seeley - 1891 - 394 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.'...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... | |
 | Charles F. Beezley - 1891 - 436 pages
...d'ye call it?' Deathreplies: • 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—... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - 1893 - 452 pages
...d'ye call it? " Death replies : "Surely, my friend, you're but in jestl Since I was here before 'lis 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 - 1896 - 406 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 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... | |
 | 1896 - 540 pages
...ye 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,—... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1898 - 600 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... | |
 | Henry Clarke Warren - 1900 - 564 pages
...ye 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, —... | |
 | Henry Troth Coates - 1901 - 1080 pages
...return'd !" old Dodson cries. gay, "Surely, my friend, you're but in jest! Since I was here before 'Tis ld I feel less than they? We were all inmates of one...dwell. My very chains and I grew friends. 80 much but a secretary's warrant. Besides, you promised me Three Warnings, Which I have look'd for nights... | |
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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. 
