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...worthy friend, no poor relation ? So ready to do strangers good, Forgetting his own flesh and blood. I From Dublin soon to London spread, Tis told at Court...the spleen, Runs laughing up to tell the Queen. The Queen, so gracious, mild and good. Cries, Is he gone ? Tis time he should. He's dead, you say ; then...

...good, Forgetting his own flesh and blood. From Dublin soon to London spread, 'Tis told at Court—the Dean is dead ; And Lady Suffolk,* in the spleen, Runs laughing up to tell the Queen. The Queen, so gracious, mild and good, Cries, Is he gone ? 'Tis time he should. He's dead, you say; then...

...advice. Had he been ruled, for aught appears, He might have lived these twenty years ; For when we opened him we found That all his vital parts were sound.'...the spleen, Runs laughing up to tell the queen. The queen so gracious, mild, and good, Cries, ' Is he gone ! 'tis time he should. He's dead, you say, then...

...throw my pen aside ; If with such talents Heaven has bless'd 'em, Have I not reason to detest 'em ? From Dublin soon to London spread, 'Tis told at court,...the spleen, Runs laughing up to tell the queen. The queen, so gracious, mild, and good, Cries, ' Is he gone ! 'tis time he should. He's dead, you say;...

...wherein he ponders on the manner in which the news of his own death would be received in London : " From Dublin soon to London spread, 'Tis told at court,...the spleen, Runs laughing up to tell the Queen. The Queen, so gracious, mild and good, Cries, ' Is he gone ! 'Tis time he should. ' " My female friends,...

...answered, the Dean is blamed for his bequests. The news spreads to London and is told at Court: ' Kind Lady Suffolk, in the spleen, Runs laughing up to tell the Queen. The Queen so gracious, mild, and good, Cries, " Is he gone ? 'tis time he should."' But the loss of the...