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30 lines
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1645
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ON THE UNIVERSITY CARRIER
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by John Milton
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On the University Carrier
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who sickn'd in the time of his vacancy,
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being forbid to go to
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London, by reason of the Plague
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Here lies old Hobson, Death hath broke his girt,
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And here alas, hath laid him in the dirt,
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Or els the ways being foul, twenty to one,
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He's here stuck in a slough, and overthrown.
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'Twas such a shifter, that if truth were known,
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Death was half glad when he had got him down;
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For he had any time this ten yeers full,
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Dodg'd with him, betwixt Cambridge and the Bull.
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And surely, Death could never have prevail'd,
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Had not his weekly cours of carriage fail'd;
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But lately finding him so long at home,
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And thinking now his journeys end was come,
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And that his had tane up his latest Inne,
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In the kind office of a Chamberlin
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Shew'd him his room where he must lodge that night,
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Pull'd off his Boots, and took away the light:
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If any ask for him, it shall be sed,
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Hobson has supt, and's newly gon to bed.
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-THE END-
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