Death and Doctor Hornbook（5 / 7）

  their latin names as fast he rattles
  as a b c.
  “calces o' fossils, earths, and trees;
  true sal-marinum o' the seas;
  the farina of beans an' pease,
  he has't in plenty;
  aqua-fontis, what you please,
  he can content ye.
  “forbye some new, uncommon weapons,
  urinus spiritus of capons;
  or mite-horn shavings, filings, scrapings,
  distill'd per se;
  sal-alkali o' midge-tail clippings,
  and mony mae.”
  “waes me for johnie ged's hole now,”
  h i, “if that thae news be true!
  his braw calf-ward whare gowans grew,
  sae white and bonie,
  nae doubt they'll rive it wi' the plew;
  they'll ruin johnie!”
  the creature grain'd an eldritch laugh,
  and says “ye needna yoke the pleugh,
  kirkyards will soon be till'd eneugh,
  tak ye nae fear:
  they'll be trench'd wi' mony a sheugh,
  in twa-three year.
  “whare i kill'd ane, a fair strae-death,
  by loss o' blood or want of breath
  this night i'm free to tak my aith,
  that hornbook's skill ↑返回顶部↑