Works, Volume 6J. G. Gregory, 1860 |
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Page 424 - Shakes the thin roof, and echoes round the walls ; Anon, a figure enters, quaintly neat, All pride and business, bustle and conceit ; With looks unalter'd by these scenes of woe, With speed that, entering, speaks his haste to go, He bids the gazing throng around him fly, And carries fate and physic in his eye...