Their fhoes to cobble, bufkins mend Tho' long this place I did enjoy, Small was the gain which did attend. They paid me all... Miscellanies in Verse and Prose - Pàgina 65 per John Lucas (Cobbler) - 1776 - 116 pàgines Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
...economic limitations of his former trade: Me did the Muses nine employ, Their shoes to cobble, buskins mend; Tho' long this place I did enjoy, Small was the gain which did attend. They paid me all (sad pay!) in rhyme; I thought that it was wond'rous hard That I on such light food must dine.— Can...