"Then, thus, to form Apollo's crown,

(Let ev'ry other bring his own,)

I lay my branch of laurel down."]

[33] [Lord Thurlow affected an archaic style in his Sonnets and other verses. In the Preface to the second edition of Poems, etc., he writes, "I think that our Poetry has been continually declining since the days of Milton and Cowley ... and that the golden age of our language is in the reign of Queen Elizabeth."]

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THE DEVIL'S DRIVE.[ii][34]

1.

The Devil returned to Hell by two,

The

And he stayed at home till five;

When he dined on some homicides done in ragoût,

And a rebel or so in an Irish stew,

And sausages made of a self-slain Jew,

And bethought himself what next to do,

"And," quoth he, "I'll take a drive.

I walked in the morning, I'll ride to-night;

In darkness my children take most delight,

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