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...we sit and talk together — quoniam convenimus — which image do you opine to be most poetical ? The chest contrived a double debt to pay, A bed by night, a ckett of drawers by day. Or this. Sweet Auburn, loveliest village of the plain. Where health, &c. But...

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...wall, the nicely sanded floor, The varnish'd clock that click'd behind the door; The cheat, contriv'da double debt to pay, A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day ; The pictures plac'd for ornament and use, The Twelve Good Rules, the Royal Game of Goose ; The hearth, except when...