MASTER I HAVE Master I have, and I am his man, Gallop a dreary dun; Master I have, and I am his man, And I'll get a wife as fast as I can; With a heighty gaily gamberally, Higgledy piggledy, niggledy, niggledy, Gallop a dreary dun.

What, I warrant you think I come a dunning now? Fail.

To-day I can defy a dun even fromWhat, what's this?

They had the satisfaction of ruining each otherthe full purse was emptied by devouring duns, and the old nobility suffered by its connexion with vulgarity.

He may have felt as a debtor would Who has dodged a dogging dun, Or a bank-cashier in his hour of dread With brokers behind and breakers ahead, Or a blood with his last "upon the red," And each expecting a run.

40 Must you not by mean lies evade To-morrow's duns from every trade?

"It seems to me it's not the part of a gentleman to play the dun so continually.

You remember Kiplingyou are always quoting that young man" 'The dun he fled like a stag of ten, but the mare like a barren doe.'

In the meantime, as Shadwell relates, the rakes "live as much by their wits as ever; and to avoid the clinking dun of a boxkeeper, at the end of one act they sneak to the opposite side 'till the end of another; then call the boxkeeper saucy rascal, ridicule the poet, laugh at the actors, march to the opera, and spunge away the rest of the evening."

As the host his song had ended with a last resounding twang, And within the harp's dumb chambers murmurous echoes faintly rang, Up then sprang the guest, and straightway downward rolled his garment dun There stood Harold, the avenger, Burislav's undaunted son.