Gayton wake, or Mary Dod, a poem

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Strana ix - ... of the richest qualities, present themselves at one view, and during the whole day are exposed to the attacks of every comer ! As this is the practice of all houses of the least respectahility, a man...
Strana 7 - Seed time and Harvest, Cold and Heat, Summer and Winter, day and night shall not cease forever, and set His rainbow as a sign.
Strana 47 - Eglon was a very fat man. 18 And when he had made an end to offer the present, he sent away the people that bare the present. 19 But he himself turned again from the quarries that were by Gilgal, and said, I have a secret errand unto thee, O king: who said, Keep silence.
Strana 41 - Whitfield, who had been accustomed to bear reproach and face opposition, recriminated with double acrimony and greater success. While Alexander Garden, to keep his flock from straying after this strange pastor, expatiated on the words of Scripture, " Those that have turned the world upside down are come hither also...
Strana 5 - Youth, manhood, age, even childhood came, To share this jocund day; The hedges shone with gaudy shops, And Gayton all was gay. Dwarfs, giants, players, learned pig With other creatures odd. The Dee brought cargoes rich And with them Mary Dodd.
Strana 6 - Mary first approached the place, To get on shore was trying, That she was there, on every voice, Through all the Wake was flying. A crowd collected - bought her cakes, And gazed till they were weary. And they who'd of the mammoth read, Concluded it was Mary.
Strana 29 - Majesty's ship , lias informed us, that having the misfortune to be six feet three inches high, and his cabin being neither in height nor length ahove four feet six inches, he can neither lie, sit, stand, nor even kneel at his devotions ! this is therefore to certify, that we appoint him to the • , a ship commodious for the above purposes.
Strana 12 - From Hoylake hall to Gayton come Fine ladies— gentlemen ; They come, my friends, to look at you, And you may look at them. A note explains Hoylake Hall to be " a magnificent inn lately built at the extremity of Wirral by Sir JT Stanley, Bart., and a most delightful situation for sea-batbing.
Strana 29 - A very tall gentleman was appointed to a small ship, where his cahin was every way inconvenient. After applying in vain to his friends to get him promoted, he at last wrote up to the Admiralty Board, humourously...
Strana 3 - And gently ebbed the Dee; The winds of heaven were fast asleep, Though Gayton all was glee. The lads of Wirral came in crowds, The nymphlets neat and trim; To stay at home on such a day Is very near a sin.

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