 | Edwin Markham - 1927 - 386 sider
...ten-penny nail; A shield and a helmet, a buckler and spear, Weighed less than a widow's uncrystallized tear. A lord and a lady went up at full sail, When...Ten doctors, ten lawyers, two courtiers, one earl, 15O7 Ten counsellors' wigs, full of powder and curl, All heaped in one balance and swinging from thence,... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1867 - 466 sider
...nail; A shield and a helmet, a buckler and spear, Weighed less than a widow's "'"uncrystalSzed tear. 9. A lord and a lady went up at full sail, When a bee...doctors, ten lawyers, two courtiers, one earl, Ten counselors' wigs, full of powder and curl, All heaped in one balance and swinging from thence, Weighed... | |
 | Samuel Prout Newcombe - 1850 - 426 sider
...trappings, rose up in the scale, Though balanced by only a tenpenny nail. A lord and a lady went up at fall sail, When a bee chanced to light on the opposite...Ten counsellors' wigs full of powder and curl, All heap'd in one balance, and swinging from thence, Weigh'd less than some atoms of candour and sense... | |
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A lord and a lady went up at full sail, When a bee chanced to light on the opposite scale; Ten doctors, ten lawyers, two courtiers, one earl, Ten counsellors... 
