The Poetical Works of John Milton


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Title] An epitaph on the admirable dramaticke poet W.  
Shakespeare  
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needs] neede  
weak] dull  
live-long] lasting  
0 heart] part  
3 it] her  
ON THE UNIVERSITY CARRIER WHO SICKN'D IN THE TIME OF HIS  
VACANCY, BEING FORBID TO GO TO LONDON, BY REASON OF THE  
PLAGUE.  
HERE lies old Hobson, Death hath broke his girt,  
And here alas, hath laid him in the dirt,  
Or els the ways being foul, twenty to one,  
He's here stuck in a slough, and overthrown.  
'Twas such a shifter, that if truth were known,  
Death was half glad when he had got him down;  
For he had any time this ten yeers full,  
Dodg'd with him, betwixt Cambridge and the Bull.  
And surely, Death could never have prevail'd,  
Had not his weekly cours of carriage fail'd;  
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