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The three tours of Doctor Syntax

In search of 1. The picturesque, 2. Of consolation, 3. Of a wife. The text complete. [By William Combe] With four illustrations

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The Doctor heard, with tearful eye, The Sexton's grateful eulogy:
Then sought the stone with gentle tread,
As fearing to disturb the dead,
And thus, in measur'd tones, he read: