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...like cross-readings, were extremely ludicrous. For example, while the fair songstress breathed out, " I'll not leave thee, thou lone one, To pine on the stem; Since the lovely are sleeping, Qo sleep thou with them," the sailor's accompaniment, or invitation, ran, " And if a lady would be...

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...meanings of a word, is termed a pun. Ex. — " 'Tie the last rose of summer, left blooming alone ; All her lovely companions are faded and gone ; No flower...nigh, To reflect back her blushes, or give sigh for sigli. I'll not leave thee, thou lone one, to pine on the stem ; Since the lovely are sleeping, go,...

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...reading how Moore finds " the last rose of summer left blooming alone," and because, as he says, " no flower of her kindred, no rosebud is nigh, to reflect back her blushes, to give sigh for sigh," how he proceeds to put the poor thing out of its pain, and tells it " go sleep...