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...care, (As rofe the morn) halffenous, half in joke, Sir Humphrey hail'd his cot taneous oak. " £ach year (the knight would cry), each year I fee ' ' Thy ftem that argues a more vigorout tree ; " Whilft I, my brother, am grown old ani fhrunk, " Full foon to wither, a poor faplefs...

...this peculiar day the gloom of care, (As rofe the morn) half-ferious, half-in-joke, Sir HUMPHREY haiPd his coetaneous oak. " Each year (the Knight would...neighbour from the heart, Not with the hollownefs of modifh art ; And ftoutly pull'd — familiar talk afloat — His kinfman by the buttons of the coat;...