The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift/Volume 8/The Dean's Manner of Living

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The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, Volume 8
(c. 1733–36)
by Jonathan Swift, edited by Thomas Sheridan, John Nichols, John Boyle, Patrick Delany, John Hawkesworth, Deane Swift, William Bowyer, John Birch, and George Faulkner

The Dean's Manner of Living

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1568292The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, Volume 8
— The Dean's Manner of Livingc. 1733-36Jonathan Swift

THE DEAN'S MANNER OF LIVING.

ON rainy days alone I dine
Upon a chick and pint of wine.
On rainy days I dine alone,
And pick my chicken to the bone:
But this my servants much enrages,
No scraps remain to save board wages.
In weather fine I nothing spend,
But often spunge upon a friend:
Yet, where he's not so rich as I,
I pay my club, and so good b'ye.

The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift/Volume 8/The Dean's Manner of Living

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