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by Richard Harris Barham    ( comments )

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The Jackdaw sat in the Cardinal's chair!
Bishop and Abbot and Prior were there,
Many a monk more

The Jackdaw sat in the Cardinal's chair!
Bishop and Abbot and Prior were there,
Many a monk and many a friar,
Many a knight and many a squire,
With a great many more of lesser degree,--
In sooth a goodly company;
And they served the Lord Primate on bended knee.
Never, I ween,
Was a prouder seen,
Read of in books or dreamt of in dreams,
Than the Cardinal Lord Archbishop of Rheims.

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by Jonathan Swift    ( comments )

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An old miser kept a tame jackdaw, that used to steal pieces of
money, and hide them in a more

An old miser kept a tame jackdaw, that used to steal pieces of
money, and hide them in a hole, which a cat observing, asked,
"Why he would hoard up those round shining things that he could
make no use of?" "Why," said the jackdaw, "my master has a whole
chestfull, and makes no more use of them that I do."

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