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Or funerals with stately pomp,

March slowly on in solemn dump,
As she laugh'd out, until her back,
As well as sides, was like to crack.

She vow'd she would go see the sight,
And visit the distressed Knight;

To do the office of a neighbour,

And be a gossip at his labour;

And from his wooden jail, the stocks,
To set at large his fetter-locks,

And by exchange, parole, or ransom,
To free him from th' inchanted mansion.
This b'ing resolv'd, she call'd for hood
And usher, implements abroad
Which ladies wear, besides a slender
Young damsel waiting to attend her;
All which appearing, on she went,

To find the Knight in limbo pent.

And 't was not long before she found

Him, and his stout Squire, in the pound,

Both coupled in inchanted tether,

By farther leg behind together:

For as he sat upon his rump,

His head like one in doleful dump,

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Tus part. quati sht. they sey's weblated,

And vil delinquent soris haunted.

That here are è chains, and scourg

Tuti her guilty crimes de pURL L
Look. There are two of them appea”.
Like persons I have seer somEWHERE.
Some have mistaker blocks and poss
For spectres. apparitions, ghosts.

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Between his knees, his hands apply'd

Unto his ears on either side;

And by him, in another hole,
Afflicted Ralpho, cheek by jole ;
She came upon him in his wooden
Magician's circle, on the sudden,
As spirits do t'a conjurer,

When in their dreadful shapes th'

appear.

No sooner did the Knight perceive her,

But straight he fell into a fever,

Inflam'd all over with disgrace,

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To be seen by her in such a place;

Which made him hang his head, and scowl,

And wink, and goggle like an owl,

He felt his brains begin to swim,

When thus the dame accosted him:

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This place, quoth she, they say's inchanted, And with delinquent spirits haunted,

That here are ty'd in chains, and scourg'd 125

Until their guilty crimes be purg'd:

Look, there are two of them appear,

Like persons I have seen somewhere.
Some have mistaken blocks and posts

For spectres, apparitions, ghosts,

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