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The Poetical Works of The Rev. Samuel Bishop

... To Which are Prefixed, Memoirs of the Life of the Author By the Rev. Thomas Clare

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EPIGRAM CCIV.

[A Goose, my good old grandam said]

SUB JUDICE LIS EST.

A Goose, my good old grandam said,
Ent'ring a barn pops down his head;
I beg'd her once the cause to show;—
She told me, she must wave the task—
For nothing but a goose would ask,
What nothing but a goose could know!