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2(5 The Mtrrie Devil 6f Edmonton
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Sometimes he'd shave a ploughman ' s skull , Sometimes he'd stopp a mill , Or with quick start o ' erturn a carte , And roll it down the hill . The harvesters thev chas ' d him oft , With pitch-forke and with flail ; But that same night he'd fire the loft , A nd swill their nut-browue ale .
The vicar came with hooke and psalm , The clerke hys sweete nose lente , The |> Hrish warde made full acorde With the same instrumente .
The Devil he laugh'd at priest and psalme , And tweak'd this clerke by the nose ; And quoth he , each younker ' s voice is crack'd Like a cocke ' s when flrste it crows .
The Knight of the Shaking-speare rode bye And he gave the Devil a poke , And trotting alon ^ , he made him a song How the Devil was all a joke . The Devil look'd blue and swore aloud ,
" By the strength of our bonfire smoke , If I had you below I'd soone let you kuowe If jeering the Devil ' s a joke !
With my stew-pun and grippers— my long forke and rippers , And the gridiron—my favourite toole ; You'd find it no juke , with speare or with booke , To innke the Devil a foole ! "
A widow ' s soid he now ins )> ir * d , And a widow old was she , Her spouse had been lawyer , calPd Simon Sawyer—She was burnt for sorcerie . Then one dark incite , this wicked sprite Got drunk with flip and < jro < r , Ai \(\ bye next morne had melted quite Into a poisonous four : 1 ^
Which float ing , dropt its lieuvy drwe On ev < ry tree ( hat waves , Until into a phi ^ tit' it i ^ r cwe , An < l int * ii went to their graves * But after a time , it was quite sublime , They catue back ¥ iuy ing lofLie t » Uve « t
2(5 The Mtrrie Devil 6f Edmonton
2 ( 5 The Mtrrie Devil 6 f Edmonton
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1836, page 26, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2653/page/26/
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