The Comic Almanack, Volume 2 / An Ephemeris in Jest and Earnest, Containing Merry Tales, Humerous Poetry, Quips, and Oddities

by William Makepeace Thackeray; Gilbert Abbott À Beckett; Henry Mayhew; Horace Mayhew; Albert Smith

Y^e myddel belle ringe twyce.

Y^e sage came downe immediatelie

Y^e soundes felle onne hys eare,

Inne trothe y^e greate Philosopher

Didde thynke it was hys beere.

But, whenne he saw y^e Invalede,

And lernt whatte he didde lacke,

Y^e sage he kindlie askéd hym

Uppe to his two paire backe:

For, like a nutte, y^e sage was kinde