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What fondnesse is it to carke and care so much, at that instant and passage from all exemption of paine and care? As our birth brought us the birth of all things, so shall our death the end of all things. Therefore is it as great follie to weepe, we shall not live a hundred yeeres hence, as to waile we lived not a hundred yeeres agoe. "Death is the beginning of another life."
Though yeares you live, as many as you will, Death is eternall, death remaineth still. And I will so please you, that you shall have no discontent. Thou know'st not there shall be not other thou, When thou art dead indeed, that can tell how Alive to waile thee dying, Standing to waile thee lying. Nor shall you wish for life, which you so much desire
"Barny, my Trojan, how is every cart-load of you?" "How is Granua Waile, Barny?" "Why, thin, holy music, did you never see Barny Dhal afore? Clear off from about me, or, by the sweets of rosin, I'll play the devil an' brake things. 'You're welcome, Barny! an' 'How are you, Barny? Why thin, piper o' Moses, don't I know I'm welcome, an' yit you must be tellin' me what everybody knows!
Why, Barny," said the arch girl, as she placed him in the corner, "sorra one o' the hob but knows you: it never stirs ha, ha, ha!" "Throth, a colleen, that tongue o' yours will delude some one afore long, if it hasn't done so already." "But how is Granua Waile, Barny?" "Poor Granua is it? Faith, times is hard wid her often.
The father had conjectured properly, for the joy which animated the girl's countenance could not be misunderstood. "Barny's comin'," she exclaimed, clapping her hands with great glee, "an' our Frank wid him; they're at the river, and Frank has him on his back, and Granua Waile undhor his arm! Come out, come out! You'll die for good, lookin' at them staggerin' acrass. I knew he'd come!
When he had concluded his repast he once more tasted the liquor; after which he got Granua Waile, and continued playing their favorite tunes, and amusing them with anecdotes, both true and false, until the hour drew nigh when his services were expected by the young men and maidens who had assembled to dance in the barn.
Among the rest by fortune overthrowne, I am not least, that most may waile her fate: My fame and brute, abroad the world is blowne, Who can forget a thing thus done so late? My great mischance, my fall, and heavy state, Is such a marke whereat each tongue doth shoot That my good name, is pluckt up by the root,
Be this as it may, he made himself generally agreeable, saw that every one was comfortable, suggested an improvement in the arrangement of the seats, broke several jests on Bariry and Granua Waile which, however, were returned with interest and, in fact, acquitted himself so creditably, that his father whispered with a sigh to his mother "Alley, achora, wouldn't we be the happy family if that misfortunate boy of ours was to be always the thing he appears to be?
I knew it! and be good to thim that invinted Christmas; it's a brave time, faix!" In a moment the inmates were grouped before the door, all anxious to catch a glimpse of Barny and Granua Waile. "Faix ay! Sure enough.. Sarra doubt if it! Wethen, I'd never mistrust Barny!" might be heard in distinct exclamations from each.
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