Book of Wine & Seizures.An Asse Upon the Throne of Olde.Ch 5: Shek's Pity

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Chapftre

1. Presume'd Lust of the Stonechewer.........pp. 1-2

2. Shek's Pity ....................................................p. 2

3. Cauldron of Emotien.................................pp. 3-4

4. The Opionic Interventien..........................pp. 4-6

5. Shek's Pity................................................pp. 6-7

6. The Tidywoman Stomach'd by Fairo........pp. 7-8

Indectic ......................................................pp. 9-10

5.
Shek's Pity

ow it came to pass that when old Shek the Pitytaker heard all these things outen the mouth of the cryout gazettepeddler, he sat him self down and mulld & cryd & prayd,

and gat him self lost in the fog of deepest doldrums; then by & by found he footing, and sighd & sang his way again unto the clear. And he smeard away his tears and said, Tidywoman, tidywoman, she oughts have her self a throne, for all her magnificense. Yea (saith he), she remindeth me such much of mine own good wife which I had, which gave me my son Bott. Odd i’tiz, how that a man loveth not his wife while here she be, but merely accommodateth him self upon her; but after the bull that he hath beaten goeth amok and crusheth her in the field, causing him to say, My wife!—then thinketh he back upon her with an hue of genteelity (zhah-teel-ee-tay). [Shek pronounceth also the phoneticol.] And Shek hath taken a bit of insanitum, over that concerning his wife.

And Shek lifted him self up outen his doldrum seating, and in a rite of refreshoment pulld air into his skeletous breast, and said, Inasmuch as this woman of high factoring hath stood inhaling the air above fallen kings, capturing within her self the volitile essences of rule, those

blessed esters wafting outen the pores of a dead rex; and inasmuch as she knoweth the numbre of mints to lay upon a throne, and hath been true in her duty against all urge to usurp (as is plain) or to imbezzol (as we believe); therefore: LET HER TO HAVE THE THRONE OF FAIRO.

The strange tidywoman

And Shek took a cart from his nayber’s manger, and went forth unto Kingscorridors in Astrobaster Rock, and there put aboard the tidywoman and bore her through the land, even unto the land of Fairo Egyptigut bore he her. For he told unto her, ’Tis come thy day of purpel; this great throne of gold, ’tis thine. And he took and install-ed her upon the throne by night, coming up from neath the floor with urgent silent procedures. And he gat his own self then gone from that place.

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