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[She thought it a crow, but it turned out to be]
She thought it a crow, but it turned out to beA monk of St. Benedict croaking a text.
“Here's one of an order of cooks,” said she—
“Black friars in this world, fried black in the next.”
“The Devil on Earth” (London, 1712).
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