race,

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Or, yielding part (which equal knaves de

mand),

To gain a lawless passport through the land.

From THE BOROUGH

Old Peter Grimes made fishing his employ;

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His wife he cabined with him and his boy,
And seemed that life laborious to enjoy.
To town came quiet Peter with his fish,
And had of all a civil word and wish.
And took young Peter in his hand to pray:
He left his trade upon the Sabbath day,
But soon the stubborn boy from care broke
loose,

At first refused, then added his abuse; His father's love he scorned, his power defied,

ΙΟ

eye.

Here too the lawless merchant of the main

died.