A Century of Parody and Imitation

by Unknown

Ne how his berd by every wind was shakè

When as, for hete, his hat he wolde of takè.

Souning in[124] Erly English was his spechè,

'And gladly wolde he lerne, and gladly techè.'

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HENRY SAMBROOKE LEIGH.

ONLY SEVEN.

(A Pastoral Story, after Wordsworth)

I marvelled why a simple child