urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:	edition	
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urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.1	head	A Long Story
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.2	lg	
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.2.1	l	In Britain's isle, no matter where,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.2.2	l	An ancient pile of building stands:
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.2.3	l	The Huntingdons and Hattons there<note xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" place="bottom">N:B: the House was built by the Earls of Huntingdon, & came from them to S[i]r Christopher afterwards L[or]d Keeper, Hatton, prefer'd by Q: Elizabeth for his graceful Person & fine Dancing. [<bibl>Garrett MS.</bibl>] </note>
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.2.4	l	Employed the power of fairy hands
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.3	lg	
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.3.1	l	To raise the ceiling's fretted height,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.3.2	l	Each panel in achievements clothing,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.3.3	l	Rich windows that exclude the light,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.3.4	l	And passages that lead to nothing.
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.4	lg	
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.4.1	l	Full oft within the spacious walls,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.4.2	l	When he had fifty winters o'er him,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.4.3	l	My grave Lord-Keeper led the brawls;<note xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" place="bottom">[<emph>Lord-Keeper</emph>] [Sir Christopher] Hatton [Lord Chancellor], prefer'd by Queen Elizabeth for his graceful Person and fine Dancing.<lb /> [<emph>brawls</emph>] an old fashion'd Dance. [<bibl>Garrett MS.</bibl>] </note>
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.4.4	l	The Seal and Maces danced before him.
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.5	lg	
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.5.1	l	His bushy beard and shoe-strings green,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.5.2	l	His high-crowned hat and satin-doublet,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.5.3	l	Moved the stout heart of England's Queen,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.5.4	l	Though Pope and Spaniard could not trouble it.
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.6	lg	
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.6.1	l	What, in the very first beginning!
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.6.2	l	Shame of the versifying tribe!
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.6.3	l	Your history whither are you spinning?
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.6.4	l	Can you do nothing but describe?
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.7	lg	
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.7.1	l	A house there is (and that's enough)
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.7.2	l	From whence one fatal morning issues
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.7.3	l	A brace of warriors, not in buff,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.7.4	l	But rustling in their silks and tissues.
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.8	lg	
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.8.1	l	The first came cap-a-pee from France
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.8.2	l	Her conquering destiny fulfilling,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.8.3	l	Whom meaner beauties eye askance,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.8.4	l	And vainly ape her art of killing.
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.9	lg	
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.9.1	l	The other Amazon kind heaven
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.9.2	l	Had armed with spirit, wit, and satire:
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.9.3	l	But Cobham had the polish given,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.9.4	l	And tipped her arrows with good-nature.
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.10	lg	
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.10.1	l	To celebrate her eyes, her air---
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.10.2	l	Coarse panegyrics would but tease her.
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.10.3	l	Melissa is her <emph xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0">nom de guerre</emph>.
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.10.4	l	Alas, who would not wish to please her!
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.11	lg	
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.11.1	l	With bonnet blue and capucine,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.11.2	l	And aprons long they hid their armour,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.11.3	l	And veiled their weapons bright and keen
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.11.4	l	In pity to the country-farmer.
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.12	lg	
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.12.1	l	Fame in the shape of Mr. P---t
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.12.2	l	(By this time all the parish know it)
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.12.3	l	Had told that thereabouts there lurked
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.12.4	l	A wicked imp they call a poet,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.13	lg	
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.13.1	l	Who prowled the country far and near,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.13.2	l	Bewitched the children of the peasants,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.13.3	l	Dried up the cows and lamed the deer,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.13.4	l	And sucked the eggs and killed the pheasants.
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.14	lg	
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.14.1	l	My lady heard their joint petition,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.14.2	l	Swore by her coronet and ermine,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.14.3	l	She'd issue out her high commission
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.14.4	l	To rid the manor of such vermin.
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.15	lg	
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.15.1	l	The heroines undertook the task;
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.15.2	l	Through lanes unknown, o'er stiles they ventured,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.15.3	l	Rapped at the door nor stayed to ask,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.15.4	l	But bounce into the parlour entered.
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.16	lg	
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.16.1	l	The trembling family they daunt,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.16.2	l	They flirt, they sing, they laugh, they tattle,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.16.3	l	Rummage his mother, pinch his aunt,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.16.4	l	And up stairs in a whirlwind rattle.
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.17	lg	
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.17.1	l	Each hole and cupboard they explore,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.17.2	l	Each creek and cranny of his chamber,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.17.3	l	Run hurry-skurry round the floor,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.17.4	l	And o'er the bed and tester clamber,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.18	lg	
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.18.1	l	Into the drawers and china pry,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.18.2	l	Papers and books, a huge imbroglio!
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.18.3	l	Under a tea-cup he might lie,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.18.4	l	Or creased, like dogs-ears, in a folio.
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.19	lg	
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.19.1	l	On the first marching of the troops
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.19.2	l	The Muses, hopeless of his pardon,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.19.3	l	Conveyed him underneath their hoops
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.19.4	l	To a small closet in the garden.
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.20	lg	
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.20.1	l	So Rumour says (who will, believe)
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.20.2	l	But that they left the door ajar,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.20.3	l	Where, safe and laughing in his sleeve,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.20.4	l	He heard the distant din of war.
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.21	lg	
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.21.1	l	Short was his joy. He little knew
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.21.2	l	The power of magic was no fable.
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.21.3	l	Out of the window, whisk, they flew,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.21.4	l	But left a spell upon the table.
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.22	lg	
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.22.1	l	The words too eager to unriddle,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.22.2	l	The poet felt a strange disorder:
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.22.3	l	Transparent birdlime formed the middle,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.22.4	l	And chains invisible the border.
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.23	lg	
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.23.1	l	So cunning was the apparatus,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.23.2	l	The powerful pothooks did so move him,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.23.3	l	That, will he, nill he, to the Great-House<note xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" place="bottom"> [<emph>Great-House</emph>] So the Country People call it. [<bibl>Garrett MS.</bibl>] </note>
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.23.4	l	He went, as if the Devil drove him.
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.24	lg	
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.24.1	l	Yet no his way (no sign of grace,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.24.2	l	For folks in fear are apt to pray)
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.24.3	l	To Phoebus he preferred his case,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.24.4	l	And begged his aid that dreadful day.
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.25	lg	
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.25.1	l	The godhead would have backed his quarrel,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.25.2	l	But, with a blush on recollection,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.25.3	l	Owned that his quiver and his laurel
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.25.4	l	'Gainst four such eyes were no protection.
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.26	lg	
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.26.1	l	The court was sate, the culprit there,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.26.2	l	Forth from their gloomy mansions creeping
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.26.3	l	The Lady Janes and Joans repair,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.26.4	l	And from the gallery stand peeping:
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.27	lg	
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.27.1	l	Such as in silence of the night
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.27.2	l	Come (sweep) along some winding entry
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.27.3	l	(Styack<note xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" place="bottom"> [<emph>Styack</emph>] The House-Keeper. </note> has often seen the sight)
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.27.4	l	Or at the chapel-door stand sentry;
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.28	lg	
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.28.1	l	In peaked hoods and mantles tarnished,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.28.2	l	Sour visages, enough to scare ye,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.28.3	l	High dames of honour once, that garnished
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.28.4	l	The drawing-room of fierce Queen Mary!
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.29	lg	
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.29.1	l	The peeress comes. The audience stare,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.29.2	l	And doff their hats with due submission:
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.29.3	l	She curtsies, as she takes her chair,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.29.4	l	To all the people of condition.
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.30	lg	
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.30.1	l	The bard with many an artful fib
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.30.2	l	Had in imagination fenced him,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.30.3	l	Disproved the arguments of Squib,<note xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" place="bottom"> [<emph>Squib</emph>] [James Squibb] Groom of the Chambers. </note>
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.30.4	l	And all that Groom<note xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" place="bottom"> [<emph>Groom</emph>] The Steward. </note> could urge against him.
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.31	lg	
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.31.1	l	But soon his rhetoric forsook him,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.31.2	l	When he the solemn hall had seen;
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.31.3	l	A sudden fit of ague shook him,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.31.4	l	He stood as mute as poor Macleane.<note xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" place="bottom"> [<emph>Macleane</emph>] A famous Highwayman hang'd the week before. </note>
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.32	lg	
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.32.1	l	Yet something he was heard to mutter,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.32.2	l	'How in the park beneath an old-tree
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.32.3	l	'(Without design to hurt the butter,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.32.4	l	'Or any malice to the poultry,)
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.33	lg	
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.33.1	l	'He once or twice had penned a sonnet;
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.33.2	l	'Yet hoped that he might save his bacon:
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.33.3	l	'Numbers would give their oaths upon it,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.33.4	l	'He ne'er was for a conjurer taken.'
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.34	lg	
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.34.1	l	The ghostly prudes with hagged face
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.34.2	l	Already had condemned the sinner.
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.34.3	l	My lady rose and with a grace---
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.34.4	l	She smiled, and bid him come to dinner.
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.35	lg	
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.35.1	l	'Jesu-Maria! Madam Bridget,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.35.2	l	'Why, what can the Viscountess mean?'
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.35.3	l	(Cried the square hoods in woeful fidget)
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.35.4	l	'The times are altered quite and clean!
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.36	lg	
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.36.1	l	'Decorum's turned to mere civility;
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.36.2	l	'Her air and all her manners show it.
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.36.3	l	'Commend me to her affability!
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.36.4	l	'Speak to a commoner and poet!'
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.37	lg	
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.37.1	head	<emph xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0">(Here 500 stanzas are lost.)</emph>
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.37.2	l	And so God save our noble King,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.37.3	l	And guard us from long-winded lubbers,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.37.4	l	That to eternity would sing,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ALongStory.English.1716_lost:1.37.5	l	And keep my lady from her rubbers.