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Then ftraight his cruel bloody hands, 

 He on the lady laid ; 

 Who quivering and quaking ftands, 

 "While thus to her he faid ; 

 " Thou art the doe that I muft drefs, 

 " See here — behold my knife ; 

 " For it is pointed, prefently 

 " To rid thee of thy life." 

 O then cried out the fcuUion boy, 

 As loud as loud might be, 

 " O fave her life, good mailer cook, 

 " And make your pies of me !" 



What follows may be compared with any thing in Burger. 



" O then," befpoke the fcullion boy, 

 i; "With a loud voice, fo high, 



«« If now you will your daughter fee — 



" My lord — cut up that pye, 



" Wherein her flefli is minced fmall 



" And parched with the fire, __ 



" AH caufed by her ftepmother, 



" Who did her death defire. — 



Then all in black this lord did mourn, 



And for his daughter's fake, 



He judged her cruel ftepmother 



To be burned at a ftake. 



Likewife he judged the mafter cook 



In boiling lead to ftand. 



And made the fimple fcullion boy 



The heir of all his land. 



It is on fuch claflical models as thefe that one of the moft favou- 

 rite and admired German writers has formed his ftyle. Indeed, he 



has 



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