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Master Sandy's Snap-Dragon · The Children's Book of Christmas Stories

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  Speaker 1: Story number thirty one of the Children's Book of Christmas Stories.
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  Speaker 1: This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in
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  Speaker 1: visit LibriVox dot org. Recording by Alyssa mc caslin, July
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  Speaker 1: two thousand, twelve. Children's Book of Christmas Stories by various artists.
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  Speaker 1: Master Sandys snap Dragon by Eldred Jess Brooks. There was
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  Speaker 1: just enough of December in the air and of May
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  Speaker 1: in the sky to make the Yule Tide of the
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  Speaker 1: Year of Grace sixteen eleven a time of pleasure and
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  Speaker 1: delight to every boy and girl in Mary, England, from
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  Speaker 1: the princely children in stately Whitehall to the humblest pot
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  Speaker 1: boy and scullery girl in the Hall of the Country Squire,
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  Speaker 1: and in the Palace at Whitehall, even the cares of
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  Speaker 1: state gave place to the sports of this happy season.
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  Speaker 1: For that most high and Mighty Prince James, by the
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  Speaker 1: grace of God, King of Great Britain, France and Ireland,
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  Speaker 1: as you will find him styled in your copy of
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  Speaker 1: the old version, or what is known as King James Bible,
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  Speaker 1: loved the Christmas festivities cranky, crabbed and crusty though he was,
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  Speaker 1: and this here he felt especially gracious for now, first,
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  Speaker 1: since the terror of the Guy foxplot, which had come
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  Speaker 1: to naught full seven years before, did the timid king
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  Speaker 1: feel secure on his throne. The translation of the Bible
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  Speaker 1: on which so many learned men had been for years engaged,
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  Speaker 1: had just been issued from the press of Master Robert Baker.
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  Speaker 1: And lastly, much profit was coming into the Royal treasury
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  Speaker 1: from the new lands, in the Indies and across the sea.
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  Speaker 1: So it was to be a merry Christmas in the
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  Speaker 1: Palace at Whitehall. Great were the preparations for its celebration,
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  Speaker 1: and the Lord Henry, the handsome, wise and popular young
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  Speaker 1: Prince of Wales, whom men hope some day to hail
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  Speaker 1: as King Henry of Kings, was to take part in
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  Speaker 1: a jolly Christmas mask in which too even the Little
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  Speaker 1: Prince Charles was to perform for the edification of the court.
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  Speaker 1: When the Mass should be shown in the new and
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  Speaker 1: gorgeous banqueting hall of the Palace. And to night it
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  Speaker 1: was Christmas Eve, the Little Prince Charles and the Princess
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  Speaker 1: Elizabeth could scarcely wait for the morrow so impatient were
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  Speaker 1: they to see all the grand devisings that were in
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  Speaker 1: store for them. So good Master Sandy, under tutor to
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  Speaker 1: the Prince, proposed to wise Archie Armstrong the King's gesture
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  Speaker 1: that they play at snapdragon for the children in the
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  Speaker 1: royal nursery. The Prince and Princess clamored for the promised
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  Speaker 1: game at once, and soon the flicker from the flaming
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  Speaker 1: bow lighted up the darkened nursery, as around the witch
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  Speaker 1: like caldron they watched their opportunity to snatch the lucky raisin.
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  Speaker 1: The room rang so loudly with fun and laughter that
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  Speaker 1: even the King himself, big of the head and rickety
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  Speaker 1: of legs, shambled in good humoredly to join in the
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  Speaker 1: sport that was giving so much pleasure to the royal
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  Speaker 1: boy he so dearly loved, and whom he always called
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  Speaker 1: Baby Charles. But what was snap dragon, you asked, A
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  Speaker 1: simple enough game, but dear, for many and many a
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  Speaker 1: year to English children, a broad and shallow bull or dish,
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  Speaker 1: half filled with blazing brandy, at the bottom of which
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  Speaker 1: line numerous twosome raisins, a rare tidbit in those days,
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  Speaker 1: and one of these, pierced with a gold button, was
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  Speaker 1: known as a lucky raisin. Then, as the flaming brandy
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  Speaker 1: flickered and darted from the yawning bowl, even as did
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  Speaker 1: the flaming poisoned tongues of the cruel dragon that Saint
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  Speaker 1: George of England conquered so valiantly, Each one of the
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  Speaker 1: revelers sought to snatch a raisin from the burning bowl
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  Speaker 1: without sins or scar and he who drew out the
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  Speaker 1: lucky raisin was winner and champion, and could claim a
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  Speaker 1: boon or reward for his superior skill. Rather a dangerous game, perhaps,
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  Speaker 1: it seems, but folks were rough players in those old days,
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  Speaker 1: and laughed at a burn or a bruise, taking them
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  Speaker 1: as part of the fun. So a round master Sandy
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  Speaker 1: snapped dragon, danced the royal children, and even the king
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  Speaker 1: himself condescended to dip his royal hands in the flames,
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  Speaker 1: while Archie Armstrong, the Jester, cried out, now, fair and softly, brother, Jamie,
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  Speaker 1: fair and softly, man, there's narrow plumbin all that plucking's
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  Speaker 1: so worth the burning as there was in siner Guy
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  Speaker 1: falk snapped dragon. When you'd prove not to be his
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  Speaker 1: lucky raisin. For king's jesters were privileged characters in the
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  Speaker 1: old days, and jolly Archie Armstrong could joke with the
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  Speaker 1: King on this guy Falk's scare as none other dared.
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  Speaker 1: And still no one brought out the lucky raisin. Though
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  Speaker 1: the Princess Elizabeth's fair arm was scotched, and good Master
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  Speaker 1: sam and these peaked beard was singed, and my Lord
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  Speaker 1: Montacute had dropped his signet ring in the fiery dragon's mouth,
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  Speaker 1: and even his gracious Majesty the King was nursing one
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  Speaker 1: of his royal fingers. But just as through the parted
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  Speaker 1: aras came Young Henry, Prince of Wales. Little Prince Charles
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  Speaker 1: gave a boy as shout of triumph. Hey Hazoi, he cried,
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  Speaker 1: tis mine, tis mine, Look Archie, see dear Dad, I
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  Speaker 1: have the lucky raisin. A boon, good folk, a boon
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  Speaker 1: for me. And the excited lad held aloft the lucky raisin,
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  Speaker 1: in which gleamed the golden button rarely caught. Young Yorke,
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  Speaker 1: cried Prince Henry, clapping his hands in applause. I came
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  Speaker 1: in right in good time. Did I not to give
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  Speaker 1: you luck? Little brother, and now, lad, what is the
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  Speaker 1: boon to be? And King James, greatly pleased at whatever
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  Speaker 1: his dear baby Charles said or did, echoed his eldest
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  Speaker 1: son's question. Ay, Lad, twas a rare good dip, so
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  Speaker 1: crave your boon. What does my bonny boy desire? But
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  Speaker 1: the boy hesitated? What was there that a royal prince
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  Speaker 1: indulged as was he could wish for or desire? He
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  Speaker 1: really could think of nothing, And, crossing quickly to his
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  Speaker 1: elder brother, whom boy fashion he adored, he whispered, AD's
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  Speaker 1: fish howl, what do I want? Prince Henry placed his
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  Speaker 1: hands upon his brother's shoulder and looked smilingly into his
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  Speaker 1: questioning eyes. And all within the room glanced for a
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  Speaker 1: moment at the two lads standing thus, And they were
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  Speaker 1: well worth looking at Prince Henry of Wales's tall, comely,
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  Speaker 1: open faced, and well built, a noble lad of eighteen,
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  Speaker 1: who called to men's minds So where ben Jonson says,
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  Speaker 1: the memory of the hero of Agincourt, that other thunderbolt
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  Speaker 1: of war, Harry the Fifth, to whom in face you
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  Speaker 1: are so like as Fate would have you so in worth,
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  Speaker 1: Prince Charles Royal Duke of York, Knight of the Garter
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  Speaker 1: and of the Bath, fair in face and form, an active, manly,
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  Speaker 1: daring boy of eleven, the princely brothers made so fair
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  Speaker 1: a sight that the King, jealous and suspicious of Prince
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  Speaker 1: Henry's popularity, though he was, looked now upon them both
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  Speaker 1: with loving eyes. But how those loving eyes would have
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  Speaker 1: grown dim with tears? Could this fickle, selfish, yet indulgent
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  Speaker 1: father have foreseen the sad and bitter fates of both
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  Speaker 1: his handsome boys? But fortunately such foreknowledge is not for
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  Speaker 1: fathers or mothers, whatever their rank or station. And King
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  Speaker 1: james only thought was one of pride in the two
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  Speaker 1: brave lads now whispering together in secret confidence. And into
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  Speaker 1: this he speedily broke. Come, Come, baby Charles, He cried,
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  Speaker 1: stand no more parley in, but out and over with
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  Speaker 1: the boon. Ye crave as girden for your lucky plumb
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  Speaker 1: UD's fish, lad out with it, We get it for ye.
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  Speaker 1: Though it did rain jettered staves here in Whitehall. So
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  Speaker 1: please your grace, said the little prince, bowing low with
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  Speaker 1: true courtier like grace and suavity, I will, with your
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  Speaker 1: permission crave my boon as a Christmas favor at waiseled
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  Speaker 1: time in tomorrow's revels. And then he passed from the
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  Speaker 1: chamber arm in arm with his elder brother, while the King,
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  Speaker 1: chuckling greatly over the lad's show of courtliness and ceremony,
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  Speaker 1: went into a learned discussion with my Lord of Montacute
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  Speaker 1: and Master Sandy as to the origin of the snap dragon,
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  Speaker 1: which he, with his customary assumption of deep learning, declared,
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  Speaker 1: was but a modern paraphrase, my Lord of the fable
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  Speaker 1: which telleth how dan Hercules did kill the flaming dragon
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  Speaker 1: of Hesperia, and did then, with the apple of that
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  Speaker 1: famous orchard, make a fiery dish of burning apple brandy,
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  Speaker 1: which he did name snap dragon. For King James the
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  Speaker 1: sixth of Scotland and I of England. Was you see
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  Speaker 1: something too much of what men call a pendant? Christmas
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  Speaker 1: morning rose bright and glorious, A light hoar frost widened
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  Speaker 1: the ground, and the keen December air nipped the noses
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  Speaker 1: as it hurried the song notes of the score of
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  Speaker 1: little waifs who gathered beneath the windows of the Big
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  Speaker 1: Palace sung for the happy awakening of the young Prince Charles,
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  Speaker 1: their Christmas Carol, and their Christmas. Noel, a child this
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  Speaker 1: day is born, a child of great renown, most worthy
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  Speaker 1: of a skepter, a skepter and a crown. Noel know,
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  Speaker 1: weell know well, noel sing we may, because the King
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  Speaker 1: of all Kings was born this blessed day. These tidings
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  Speaker 1: shepherds heard in field, watching their fold, whereby an angel
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  Speaker 1: unto them at night, revealed and told, no well, no well,
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  Speaker 1: no well, no weel sing we may, because the King
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  Speaker 1: of all Kings was born this blessed day. He brought
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  Speaker 1: unto them tidings of gladness and of mirth, which cometh
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  Speaker 1: to all people by this Holy Infant's birth. No weel, noel, noel,
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  Speaker 1: noel sing we may, because the King of all Kings
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  Speaker 1: was born this blessed day. The blessed Day wore on
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  Speaker 1: gifts and sports, filled the happy hours in the Royal
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  Speaker 1: banqueting hall. The Christmas dinner was royally set and served,
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  Speaker 1: and King and Queen and Princes, with attendant nobles and
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  Speaker 1: holiday guests, partook of the strong dishes of those old
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  Speaker 1: days of hearty appetites. A shield of brawn with mustard
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  Speaker 1: boiled capon, a chine of beef roasted, a neat's tongue roasted,
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  Speaker 1: a pig roasted chewets, baked goose, swan and turkey roasted,
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  Speaker 1: a haunch of venison, roasted, a pasty of venison, a
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  Speaker 1: kid stuffed with pudding and olive, pie, capons and dowsets,
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  Speaker 1: salads and pricksees. All these and much more, with strong
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  Speaker 1: barren spy stale to wash the dinner down crown the
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  Speaker 1: royal board, while the great Boar's head and the Christmas Pie,
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  Speaker 1: borne in with great parade, were placed on the table,
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  Speaker 1: joyously decked with holly and rosemary in bay. It was
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  Speaker 1: a great ceremony this bringing in of the boar's head.
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  Speaker 1: First came an attendant, so the old record tells us,
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  Speaker 1: a tired in horseman's coat with a boar spear in
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  Speaker 1: his hand next to him, Another huntsman in green with
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  Speaker 1: a bloody falchion drawn next to him, two pages in
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  Speaker 1: taffeta sarsenet, each of them with a mess of mustard.
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  Speaker 1: Next to whom came he that carried the boy head,
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  Speaker 1: crossed with the green silk scarf by which hung the
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  Speaker 1: empty scabbard of the falcion, which was carried before him.
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  Speaker 1: After the dinner, the boar's head, having been wrestled for
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  Speaker 1: by some of the royal yeomen, came the wasel or
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  Speaker 1: health drinking. Then the King said, and now, baby Charles,
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  Speaker 1: let us hear the boon you were to crave of
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  Speaker 1: us at Waisel as a girden for the holder of
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  Speaker 1: the Lucky Raisin and Master Sandy's nap Dragon. And the
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  Speaker 1: little eleven year old prince stood up before the company,
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  Speaker 1: in all his brave attire, glanced at his brother, Prince Henry,
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  Speaker 1: and then facing the King, said boldly, I pray you,
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  Speaker 1: my father and my heege grant me as the boon,
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  Speaker 1: I ask the freeing of Walter Rawleigh. At this, altogether
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  Speaker 1: startling and unlooked for request, Amazement and consternation appeared on
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  Speaker 1: the faces around the royal banqueting board, and the King
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  Speaker 1: put down his untasted tankard of Spy's Dale, while surprise, eyes, doubt,
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  Speaker 1: and anger quickly crossed the royal face for Sir Walter Raleigh,
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  Speaker 1: the favorite of Queen Elizabeth, the Lord Proprietor and colonizer
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  Speaker 1: of the American Colonies, and the sworn foe to Spain
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  Speaker 1: had been now close prisoner in the tower for more
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  Speaker 1: than nine years, hated and yet dreaded by his fickle
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  Speaker 1: King James, who dared not put him to death for
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  Speaker 1: fear of the people to whom the name and valor
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  Speaker 1: of Raleigh were dear hoot child, cried the King at length,
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  Speaker 1: spluttering wrathfully in the broadest of his native Scotch, as
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  Speaker 1: was his habit when angered or surprised. Ye reckless foo
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  Speaker 1: woa ha put ye to sick a jackanape trick. Didna
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  Speaker 1: ye kin that sickaboon in nay for a laddie like
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  Speaker 1: you to meddle we wa ha put ye to it?
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  Speaker 1: I say, but ere, the young prince could reply. The
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  Speaker 1: stately and solemn faced ambassador of Spain, the Count of
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  Speaker 1: Comte Deemar, arose in the place honor he filled as
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  Speaker 1: a guest of the King, My Lord King, He said,
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  Speaker 1: I beg your majesty to bear in memory or pledge
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  Speaker 1: to my gracious master, King Philip of Spain, that naught,
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  Speaker 1: save grave cause should lead you to liberate from just durrance,
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  Speaker 1: that arch enemy of Spain, the Lord Raleigh. But you
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  Speaker 1: did promise me, my Lord, said Prince Charles hastily, and
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  Speaker 1: you have told me that the royal pledge is not
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  Speaker 1: to be lightly broken. Mack Curtie, lad said King James.
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  Speaker 1: Ye Manney, learn that there is nigh rule what we
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  Speaker 1: out its exceptions. And then he added a pledge to
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  Speaker 1: a boy in play like two hours of yester Eve,
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  Speaker 1: Baby Charles, is not to be kept on matters of
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  Speaker 1: state conflict. Then, turning to the Spanish ambassador, he said,
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  Speaker 1: rest content, my lord count this recrint Raleigh shall not
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  Speaker 1: yet be loosed. But my liege still persisted the boy, Prince,
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  Speaker 1: my brother Hal did say. The wrath of the king
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  Speaker 1: burst out afresh, I said you, so, brother Hal. Indeed
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  Speaker 1: he cried, I thought the wind blew from that quarter,
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  Speaker 1: and he angrily faced his eldest son. So, Sir, twas
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  Speaker 1: you that did urge this foolish boy to work your
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  Speaker 1: traitorous purpose in such coward guise, my liege, said Prince Henry,
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  Speaker 1: rising in his place. Traitor and coward are words I
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  Speaker 1: may not calmly hear, even from my father and my King.
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  Speaker 1: You wrong me foully when you use them. Thus, For
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  Speaker 1: though I do bethink me that the tower is but
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  Speaker 1: a sorry cage in which to keep so grandly plumed
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  Speaker 1: a bird, as my Lord of Raleigh, I did but seek,
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  Speaker 1: ay you did but seek to curry favor with the
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  Speaker 1: craven crowd, burst out the now thoroughly angry King, always
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  Speaker 1: jealous of the popularity of this brave young Prince of Wales,
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  Speaker 1: And am I son to be badgered and browbeaten in
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  Speaker 1: my own palace by such a thriftless ne'er do weel
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  Speaker 1: as you, ungrateful boy, who seekest to gain preference with
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  Speaker 1: the people in this realm before your liege, Lord the King,
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  Speaker 1: quit my present, sir, and that instanterter ere that I
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  Speaker 1: do send you to spend your Christmas where your great grandfather,
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  Speaker 1: King Henry bade his astrologer spend his in the tower there,
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  Speaker 1: to keep company with your fitting comrade Raleigh the traitor.
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  Speaker 1: Without a word in reply to this outburst with a
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  Speaker 1: son's submission, but with the royal dignity, Prince Henry bent
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  Speaker 1: his head before his father's decree and withdrew from the table,
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  Speaker 1: followed by the gentleman of his household. But ere he
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  Speaker 1: could reach the arrests doorway, Prince Charles sprang to his side,
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  Speaker 1: and cried valiantly, Nay, then if he goes so do
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  Speaker 1: I twas surely but a Christmas joke, and of my
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  Speaker 1: own devising, spoil not our revel, my gracious legion father,
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  Speaker 1: on this of all the year's read letter days. By
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  Speaker 1: turning my thoughtless frolic into so such bitter threatening, I
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  Speaker 1: did but seek to test the worth of Master Sandy's
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  Speaker 1: lucky raisin by asking for as wildly great a boon
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  Speaker 1: as might be thought upon. Brother Hal too did but
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  Speaker 1: give me his advising and joke, even as I did
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  Speaker 1: seek it. None here, my royal father, would brave your
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  Speaker 1: sovereign displeasure by any unknightly or unloyal scheme. The gentle
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  Speaker 1: and dignified words of the young Prince for Charles Stuart,
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  Speaker 1: though despicable as a king, was ever loving and loyal
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  Speaker 1: as a friend, were as oil upon the troubled waters.
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  Speaker 1: The ruffled temper of the Ambassador of Spain, who in
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  Speaker 1: after years really did work Rawlei's downfallen death gave place
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  Speaker 1: to courtly bows, and the King's quick anger melted away
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  Speaker 1: before the dearly loved voice of his favorite son, Nay,
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  Speaker 1: resume your place, son Hal, he said, and you, gentlemen,
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  Speaker 1: all resume your seats. I pray I too did, But
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  Speaker 1: jest as did Baby Charles. Here a sad young wag
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  Speaker 1: I fear me is this same young prince. But as
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  Speaker 1: after the wasel came the Christmas mask in which both
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  Speaker 1: princes bore their parts, Prince Charles said to Archie Armstrong,
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  Speaker 1: the King's jesture faith good. Archie now is Master Sandy's
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  Speaker 1: snap dragon but a false beast withal and his lucky
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  Speaker 1: raisin is but an evil fruit that pays not for
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  Speaker 1: the plucking. And wise o' Larchie only wagged his head
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  Speaker 1: and answered odd Zek's cousin, Charlie, Christmas raisins are not
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  Speaker 1: the only fruit that burns the fingers in the plucking.
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  Speaker 1: And mayhap you too may live to know that a
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  Speaker 1: meddlesome horse never stumbleth but when he is reined. Poor
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  Speaker 1: cousin Charley did not then understand the full meaning of
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  Speaker 1: the wise old jester's words, but he did live to
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  Speaker 1: learn their full intent, For when in after years his
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  Speaker 1: people sought to curb his tyrannies with the revolt that
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  Speaker 1: ended only with his death upon the scaffold outside, this
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  Speaker 1: very banqueting house at Whitehall. Charles Stuart learned all too
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  Speaker 1: late that a meddlesome horse needed sometimes to be reigned,
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  Speaker 1: and heard too late as well the stern declaration of
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  Speaker 1: the Commons of England that no chief officer might presume
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  Speaker 1: for the future to contrive the enslaving and destruction of
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  Speaker 1: the nation with impunity. But though many a merry and
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  Speaker 1: many a happy day had the young Prince Charles, before
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  Speaker 1: the dark tragedy of his sad and sorry manhood, he
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  Speaker 1: lost all faith in lucky raisins. Not for three years
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  Speaker 1: did Sir Walter Rawley, whom both the Princes secretly admired,
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  Speaker 1: obtain release from the tower, and ere three more years
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  Speaker 1: were past, his head fell as a forfeit to the
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  Speaker 1: stern demands of Spain, and Prince Charles often declared that
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  Speaker 1: not indeed could come from meddling with luck, saving burnt fingers.
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  Speaker 1: Even he said, as came to me that profitless night
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  Speaker 1: when I sought a boom for snatching the lucky raisin
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  Speaker 1: from good Master Sandy's Christmas Snapdragon. End of Master Sandy's
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  Speaker 1: Snapdragon by Eldridge S. Brooks