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EPIGRAM CXXXVI.
[To serve five churches in a day]
VIRES ACQUIRIT EUNDO.
To serve five churches in a day,
The curate mounts his steed;
Thro' towns, prayers, sermons, wings his way,
And all three-quarter's speed.
The curate mounts his steed;
Thro' towns, prayers, sermons, wings his way,
And all three-quarter's speed.
All did I say?—why then I said
A thing beside my text;
The last with double haste is sped,—
Because the dinner's next.
A thing beside my text;
The last with double haste is sped,—
Because the dinner's next.
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