Poetical works of the late F. Sayers to which have been prefixed the connected disquisitions on the rise and progress of English poetry, and on English metres, and also some biographic particulars of the author, supplied by W. Taylor |
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[Here rest the bones of Ho and Hi]
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On two Chinese Astronomers, Hi and Ho, who were put to death by order of their Emperor, for getting drunk, instead of observing an Eclipse, which they were appointed to watch—the eclipse however proved to be an invisible one. See the Story in Hale's Chronology, vol. I.
Whose fate was sad yet risible,
Being hang'd because they did not spy
Th' eclipse that was invisible.
Heigh ho! 't is said a love of drink
Occasion'd all their trouble,
But this is hardly true, I think,
For drunken folks see double.
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