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+Project Gutenberg's The Diverting History of John Gilpin, by William Cowper
+
+This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
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+
+Title: The Diverting History of John Gilpin
+
+Author: William Cowper
+
+Illustrator: Anonymous
+
+Release Date: December 6, 2007 [EBook #23753]
+
+Language: English
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+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HISTORY OF JOHN GILPIN ***
+
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+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;">
+<img src="images/frontcover.jpg" width="400" height="542" alt="Front cover" title="" />
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+
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+<table class='left' border='0' cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0' summary="Page 2">
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+ <img src="images/topborder.jpg" width="750" height="161" alt="Top Border"/>
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+ <tr>
+ <td style="width: 65px;">
+ <img src="images/lsideborder.jpg" style="width: 65px; height: 400px;" alt="Side Border" />
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+ <td style="width: 620px;">
+
+ <p class='center'><img src="images/img1.jpg" width="400" height="348" alt="Illustration" title="" /></p>
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+ <td style="width: 65px; text-align: right;">
+ <img src="images/rsideborder.jpg" style="width: 65px; height: 400px;" alt="Side Border" />
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+ <img src="images/bottomborder.jpg" width="750" height="161" alt="Bottom Border" />
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+</table>
+
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+
+<table class='left' border='0' cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0' summary="Page 3">
+ <tr>
+ <td colspan='3'>
+ <img src="images/topborder.jpg" width="750" height="161" alt="Top Border" />
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+ <tr>
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+ <img src="images/lsideborder.jpg" style="width: 65px; height: 40em;" alt="Side Border" />
+ </td>
+ <td style="width: 620px;">
+
+ <p class='center'>THE</p>
+
+ <h2>DIVERTING HISTORY</h2>
+
+ <p class='center'>OF</p>
+
+ <h1 style='font-family: Cursive; font-size: 300%;'>John Gilpin.</h1>
+
+ <h3>BY WILLIAM COWPER</h3>
+
+ <h2 style='font-family: fantasy;'>Illustrated.</h2>
+
+ <hr />
+
+ <h3>LONDON: WILLIAM TEGG.</h3>
+
+ <h3>1865.</h3>
+ </td>
+ <td style="text-align: right; width: 65px;" >
+ <img src="images/rsideborder.jpg" style="width: 65px; height: 40em;" alt="Side Border" />
+ </td>
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+
+ <tr>
+ <td colspan='3'>
+ <img src="images/bottomborder.jpg" width="750" height="161" alt="Bottom Border" />
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+</table>
+
+<hr />
+
+<table class='left' border='0' cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0' summary="Page 4">
+ <tr>
+ <td colspan='3'>
+ <img src="images/topborder.jpg" width="750" height="161" alt="Top Border"/>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td style="width: 65px;">
+ <img src="images/lsideborder.jpg" style="width: 65px; height: 30em;" alt="Side Border" />
+ </td>
+ <td style="width: 620px;">
+
+ <p class='center'>LONDON:</p>
+
+ <p class='center' style='font-size: small;'>PRINTED BY W. CLOWES AND SONS, STAMFORD STREET
+ <br />
+ AND CHARING CROSS</p>
+
+ </td>
+ <td style="text-align: right;">
+ <img src="images/rsideborder.jpg" style="width: 65px; height: 30em;" alt="Side Border" />
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td colspan='3'>
+ <img src="images/bottomborder.jpg" width="750" height="161" alt="Bottom Border" />
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+</table>
+
+<hr />
+
+<table class='left' border='0' cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0' summary="Page 4">
+ <tr>
+ <td colspan='3'>
+ <img src="images/topborder.jpg" width="750" height="161" alt="Top Border"/>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td style="width: 65px;">
+ <img src="images/lsideborder.jpg" style="width: 65px; height: 400px;" alt="Side Border" />
+ </td>
+ <td style="width: 620px;">
+
+<p class='center'><img src="images/img2.jpg" width="400" height="348" alt="" title="" /></p>
+
+ </td>
+ <td style="text-align: right;">
+ <img src="images/rsideborder.jpg" style="width: 65px; height: 400px;" alt="Side Border" />
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td colspan='3'>
+ <img src="images/bottomborder.jpg" width="750" height="161" alt="Bottom Border" />
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+</table>
+
+<hr />
+
+<table class='left' border='0' cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0' summary="Page 4">
+ <tr>
+ <td colspan='3'>
+ <img src="images/topborder.jpg" width="750" height="161" alt="Top Border"/>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td style="width: 65px;">
+ <img src="images/lsideborder.jpg" style="width: 65px; height: 40em;" alt="Side Border" />
+ </td>
+ <td style="width: 620px;">
+
+<p class='center'>THE DIVERTING HISTORY</p>
+
+<p class='center' style='font-size: smaller;'>OF</p>
+
+<h2>JOHN GILPIN.</h2>
+
+<hr />
+
+<table class='center' summary='poem'><tr><td>
+<p>
+John Gilpin was a citizen<br />
+<span style='margin-left: 1em;'>Of credit and renown,</span><br />
+A train-band captain eke was he<br />
+<span style='margin-left: 1em;'>Of famous London town.</span></p>
+
+<p>
+John Gilpin's spouse said to her dear,<br />
+<span style='margin-left: 1em;'>Though wedded we have been</span><br />
+These twice ten tedious years, yet we<br />
+<span style='margin-left: 1em;'>No holiday have seen.</span></p>
+
+<p>
+To-morrow is our wedding-day,<br />
+<span style='margin-left: 1em;'>And we will then repair</span><br />
+Unto the Bell at Edmonton,<br />
+<span style='margin-left: 1em;'>All in a chaise and pair.</span></p>
+
+<p>
+My sister and my sister's child,<br />
+<span style='margin-left: 1em;'>Myself and children three,</span><br />
+Will fill the chaise; so you must ride<br />
+<span style='margin-left: 1em;'>On horseback after we.</span></p>
+</td></tr></table>
+
+ </td>
+ <td style="text-align: right;">
+ <img src="images/rsideborder.jpg" style="width: 65px; height: 40em;" alt="Side Border" />
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td colspan='3'>
+ <img src="images/bottomborder.jpg" width="750" height="161" alt="Bottom Border" />
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+</table>
+
+<hr />
+
+<table class='left' border='0' cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0' summary="Page 4">
+ <tr>
+ <td colspan='3'>
+ <img src="images/topborder.jpg" width="750" height="161" alt="Top Border"/>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td style="width: 65px;">
+ <img src="images/lsideborder.jpg" style="width: 65px; height: 40em;" alt="Side Border" />
+ </td>
+ <td style="width: 620px;">
+
+<table class='center' summary='poem'><tr><td>
+<p>
+He soon replied, I do admire<br />
+<span style='margin-left: 1em;'>Of womankind but one,</span><br />
+And you are she, my dearest dear,<br />
+<span style='margin-left: 1em;'>Therefore it shall be done.</span></p>
+
+<p>
+I am a linendraper bold,<br />
+<span style='margin-left: 1em;'>As all the world doth know,</span><br />
+And my good friend the calender<br />
+<span style='margin-left: 1em;'>Will lend his horse to go.</span></p>
+
+<p>
+Quoth Mrs. Gilpin, That's well said,<br />
+<span style='margin-left: 1em;'>And for that wine is dear,</span><br />
+We will be furnish'd with our own,<br />
+<span style='margin-left: 1em;'>Which is both bright and clear.</span></p>
+
+<p>
+John Gilpin kiss'd his loving wife,<br />
+<span style='margin-left: 1em;'>O'erjoy'd was he to find,</span><br />
+That, though on pleasure she was bent,<br />
+<span style='margin-left: 1em;'>She had a frugal mind.</span></p>
+
+<p>
+The morning came, the chaise was brought<br />
+<span style='margin-left: 1em;'>But yet was not allow'd</span><br />
+To drive up to the door, lest all<br />
+<span style='margin-left: 1em;'>Should say that she was proud.</span></p>
+
+<p>
+So three doors off the chaise was stay'd,<br />
+<span style='margin-left: 1em;'>Where they did all get in;</span><br />
+Six precious souls, and all agog<br />
+<span style='margin-left: 1em;'>To dash through thick and thin.</span></p>
+
+<p>
+Smack went the whip, round went the wheels,<br />
+<span style='margin-left: 1em;'>Were never folks so glad;</span><br />
+The stones did rattle underneath,<br />
+<span style='margin-left: 1em;'>As if Cheapside were mad.</span></p>
+</td></tr></table>
+
+ </td>
+ <td style="text-align: right;">
+ <img src="images/rsideborder.jpg" style="width: 65px; height: 40em;" alt="Side Border" />
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td colspan='3'>
+ <img src="images/bottomborder.jpg" width="750" height="161" alt="Bottom Border" />
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+</table>
+
+<hr />
+
+<table class='left' border='0' cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0' summary="Page 4">
+ <tr>
+ <td colspan='3'>
+ <img src="images/topborder.jpg" width="750" height="161" alt="Top Border"/>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td style="width: 65px;">
+ <img src="images/lsideborder.jpg" style="width: 65px; height: 400px;" alt="Side Border" />
+ </td>
+ <td style="width: 620px;">
+
+ <p class='center'><img src="images/img3.jpg" width="400" height="348" alt="Illustration" title="" /></p>
+
+ </td>
+ <td style="text-align: right;">
+ <img src="images/rsideborder.jpg" style="width: 65px; height: 400px;" alt="Side Border" />
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td colspan='3'>
+ <img src="images/bottomborder.jpg" width="750" height="161" alt="Bottom Border" />
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+</table>
+
+<hr />
+
+<table class='left' border='0' cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0' summary="Page 4">
+ <tr>
+ <td colspan='3'>
+ <img src="images/topborder.jpg" width="750" height="161" alt="Top Border"/>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td style="width: 65px;">
+ <img src="images/lsideborder.jpg" style="width: 65px; height: 40em;" alt="Side Border" />
+ </td>
+ <td style="width: 620px;">
+
+<table class='center' summary='poem'><tr><td>
+<p>
+John Gilpin at his horse's side<br />
+<span style='margin-left: 1em;'>Seized last the flowing mane,</span><br />
+And up he got in haste to ride,<br />
+<span style='margin-left: 1em;'>But soon came down again;</span></p>
+
+<p>
+For saddle-tree scarce reach'd had he,<br />
+<span style='margin-left: 1em;'>His journey to begin,</span><br />
+When, turning round his head, he saw<br />
+<span style='margin-left: 1em;'>Three customers come in.</span></p>
+
+<p>
+So down he came; for loss of time,<br />
+<span style='margin-left: 1em;'>Although it grieved him sore,</span><br />
+Yet loss of pence, full well he knew,<br />
+<span style='margin-left: 1em;'>Would trouble him much more.</span></p>
+
+<p>
+'Twas long before the customers<br />
+<span style='margin-left: 1em;'>Were suited to their mind,</span><br />
+When Betty, screaming, came down stairs,<br />
+<span style='margin-left: 1em;'>"The wine is left behind!"</span></p>
+
+<p>
+Good lack! quoth he, yet bring it me,<br />
+<span style='margin-left: 1em;'>My leathern belt likewise,</span><br />
+In which I bear my trusty sword,<br />
+<span style='margin-left: 1em;'>When I do exercise.</span></p>
+
+<p>
+Now Mrs. Gilpin (careful soul!)<br />
+<span style='margin-left: 1em;'>Had two stone bottles found,</span><br />
+To hold the liquor that she loved,<br />
+<span style='margin-left: 1em;'>And keep it safe and sound.</span></p>
+
+<p>
+Each bottle had a curling ear,<br />
+<span style='margin-left: 1em;'>Through which the belt he drew,</span><br />
+And hung a bottle on each side,<br />
+<span style='margin-left: 1em;'>To make his balance true.</span></p>
+</td></tr></table>
+
+ </td>
+ <td style="text-align: right;">
+ <img src="images/rsideborder.jpg" style="width: 65px; height: 40em;" alt="Side Border" />
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td colspan='3'>
+ <img src="images/bottomborder.jpg" width="750" height="161" alt="Bottom Border" />
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+</table>
+
+<hr />
+
+<table class='left' border='0' cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0' summary="Page 4">
+ <tr>
+ <td colspan='3'>
+ <img src="images/topborder.jpg" width="750" height="161" alt="Top Border"/>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td style="width: 65px;">
+ <img src="images/lsideborder.jpg" style="width: 65px; height: 40em;" alt="Side Border" />
+ </td>
+ <td style="width: 620px;">
+
+<table class='center' summary='poem'><tr><td>
+<p>
+Then, over all, that he might be<br />
+<span style='margin-left: 1em;'>Equipp'd from top to toe,</span><br />
+His long red cloak well brush'd and neat,<br />
+<span style='margin-left: 1em;'>He manfully did throw.</span></p>
+
+<p>
+Now see him mounted once again<br />
+<span style='margin-left: 1em;'>Upon his nimble steed,</span><br />
+Full slowly pacing o'er the stones,<br />
+<span style='margin-left: 1em;'>With caution and good heed.</span></p>
+
+<p>
+But finding soon another road<br />
+<span style='margin-left: 1em;'>Beneath his well-shod feet,</span><br />
+The snorting boast began to trot,<br />
+<span style='margin-left: 1em;'>Which gall'd him in his seat.</span></p>
+
+<p>
+So! fair and softly! John he cried,<br />
+<span style='margin-left: 1em;'>But John he cried in vain;</span><br />
+That trot became a gallop soon,<br />
+<span style='margin-left: 1em;'>In spite of curb and rein.</span></p>
+
+<p>
+So stooping down, as needs he must<br />
+<span style='margin-left: 1em;'>Who cannot sit upright,</span><br />
+He grasp'd the mane with both his hands,<br />
+<span style='margin-left: 1em;'>And eke with all his might.</span></p>
+
+<p>
+His horse, who never in that sort<br />
+<span style='margin-left: 1em;'>Had handled been before,</span><br />
+What thing upon his back had got<br />
+<span style='margin-left: 1em;'>Did wonder more and more.</span></p>
+
+<p>
+Away went Gilpin, neck or nought!<br />
+<span style='margin-left: 1em;'>Away went hat and wig;</span><br />
+He little dreamt, when he set out,<br />
+<span style='margin-left: 1em;'>Of running such a rig.</span></p>
+</td></tr></table>
+
+ </td>
+ <td style="text-align: right;">
+ <img src="images/rsideborder.jpg" style="width: 65px; height: 40em;" alt="Side Border" />
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td colspan='3'>
+ <img src="images/bottomborder.jpg" width="750" height="161" alt="Bottom Border" />
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+</table>
+
+<hr />
+
+<table class='left' border='0' cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0' summary="Page 4">
+ <tr>
+ <td colspan='3'>
+ <img src="images/topborder.jpg" width="750" height="161" alt="Top Border"/>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td style="width: 65px;">
+ <img src="images/lsideborder.jpg" style="width: 65px; height: 400px;" alt="Side Border" />
+ </td>
+ <td style="width: 620px;">
+
+<p class='center'><img src="images/img4.jpg" width="400" height="348" alt="Illustration" title="" /></p>
+
+ </td>
+ <td style="width: 65px; text-align: right;">
+ <img src="images/rsideborder.jpg" style="width: 65px; height: 400px;" alt="Side Border" />
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td colspan='3'>
+ <img src="images/bottomborder.jpg" width="750" height="161" alt="Bottom Border" />
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+</table>
+
+<hr />
+
+<table class='left' border='0' cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0' summary="Page 4">
+ <tr>
+ <td colspan='3'>
+ <img src="images/topborder.jpg" width="750" height="161" alt="Top Border"/>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td style="width: 65px;">
+ <img src="images/lsideborder.jpg" style="width: 65px; height: 40em;" alt="Side Border" />
+ </td>
+ <td style="width: 620px;">
+
+<table class='center' summary='poem'><tr><td>
+<p>
+The wind did blow, the cloak did fly<br />
+<span style='margin-left: 1em;'>Like streamer long and gay;</span><br />
+Till loop and button failing both,<br />
+<span style='margin-left: 1em;'>At last it flew away.</span></p>
+
+<p>
+Then might all people well discern<br />
+<span style='margin-left: 1em;'>The bottles he had slung;</span><br />
+A bottle swinging at each side,<br />
+<span style='margin-left: 1em;'>As has been said or sung.</span></p>
+
+<p>
+The dogs did bark, the children scream'd,<br />
+<span style='margin-left: 1em;'>Up flew the windows all;</span><br />
+And every soul cried out, Well done!<br />
+<span style='margin-left: 1em;'>As loud as he could bawl.</span></p>
+
+<p>
+Away went Gilpin--who but he?<br />
+<span style='margin-left: 1em;'>His fame soon spread around:</span><br />
+He carries weight! he rides a race!<br />
+<span style='margin-left: 1em;'>'Tis for a thousand pound!</span></p>
+
+<p>
+And still, as fast as he drew near,<br />
+<span style='margin-left: 1em;'>'Twas wonderful to view,</span><br />
+How in a trice the turnpike-men<br />
+<span style='margin-left: 1em;'>Their gates wide open threw.</span></p>
+
+<p>
+And now as he went bowing down<br />
+<span style='margin-left: 1em;'>His reeking head full low,</span><br />
+The bottles twain behind his back<br />
+<span style='margin-left: 1em;'>Were shattered at a blow.</span></p>
+
+<p>
+Down ran the wine into the road,<br />
+<span style='margin-left: 1em;'>Most piteous to be seen,</span><br />
+Which made his horse's flanks to smoke,<br />
+<span style='margin-left: 1em;'>As they had basted been.</span></p>
+</td></tr></table>
+
+ </td>
+ <td style="text-align: right;">
+ <img src="images/rsideborder.jpg" style="width: 65px; height: 40em;" alt="Side Border" />
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td colspan='3'>
+ <img src="images/bottomborder.jpg" width="750" height="161" alt="Bottom Border" />
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+</table>
+
+<hr />
+
+<table class='left' border='0' cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0' summary="Page 4">
+ <tr>
+ <td colspan='3'>
+ <img src="images/topborder.jpg" width="750" height="161" alt="Top Border"/>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td style="width: 65px;">
+ <img src="images/lsideborder.jpg" style="width: 65px; height: 40em;" alt="Side Border" />
+ </td>
+ <td style="width: 620px;">
+
+<table class='center' summary='poem'><tr><td>
+<p>
+But still he seem'd to carry weight,<br />
+<span style='margin-left: 1em;'>With leathern girdle braced:</span><br />
+For all might see the bottle necks<br />
+<span style='margin-left: 1em;'>Still dangling at his waist.</span></p>
+
+<p>
+Thus all through merry Islington<br />
+<span style='margin-left: 1em;'>These gambols he did play,</span><br />
+Until he came unto the Wash<br />
+<span style='margin-left: 1em;'>Of Edmonton so gay;</span></p>
+
+<p>
+And there he threw the wash about<br />
+<span style='margin-left: 1em;'>On both sides of the way,</span><br />
+Just like unto a trundling mop<br />
+<span style='margin-left: 1em;'>Or a wild goose at play.</span></p>
+
+<p>
+At Edmonton his loving wife<br />
+<span style='margin-left: 1em;'>From the balcony spied</span><br />
+Her tender husband, wondering much<br />
+<span style='margin-left: 1em;'>To see how he did ride.</span></p>
+
+<p>
+Stop, stop, John Gilpin!--Here's the house--<br />
+<span style='margin-left: 1em;'>They all at once did cry;</span><br />
+The dinner waits, and we are tired:<br />
+<span style='margin-left: 1em;'>Said Gilpin--So am I!</span></p>
+
+<p>
+But yet his horse was not a whit<br />
+<span style='margin-left: 1em;'>Inclined to tarry there;</span><br />
+For why?--his owner had a house<br />
+<span style='margin-left: 1em;'>Full ten miles off, at Ware.</span></p>
+
+<p>
+So like an arrow swift he flew,<br />
+<span style='margin-left: 1em;'>Shot by an archer strong;</span><br />
+So did he fly--which brings me to<br />
+<span style='margin-left: 1em;'>The middle of my song.</span></p>
+</td></tr></table>
+
+ </td>
+ <td style="text-align: right;">
+ <img src="images/rsideborder.jpg" style="width: 65px; height: 40em;" alt="Side Border" />
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td colspan='3'>
+ <img src="images/bottomborder.jpg" width="750" height="161" alt="Bottom Border" />
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+</table>
+
+<hr />
+
+<table class='left' border='0' cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0' summary="Page 4">
+ <tr>
+ <td colspan='3'>
+ <img src="images/topborder.jpg" width="750" height="161" alt="Top Border"/>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td style="width: 65px;">
+ <img src="images/lsideborder.jpg" style="width: 65px; height: 400px;" alt="Side Border" />
+ </td>
+ <td style="width: 620px;">
+
+<p class='center'><img src="images/img5.jpg" width="400" height="348" alt="Illustration" title="" /></p>
+
+ </td>
+ <td style="text-align: right;">
+ <img src="images/rsideborder.jpg" style="width: 65px; height: 400px;" alt="Side Border" />
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td colspan='3'>
+ <img src="images/bottomborder.jpg" width="750" height="161" alt="Bottom Border" />
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+</table>
+
+<hr />
+
+<table class='left' border='0' cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0' summary="Page 4">
+ <tr>
+ <td colspan='3'>
+ <img src="images/topborder.jpg" width="750" height="161" alt="Top Border"/>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td style="width: 65px;">
+ <img src="images/lsideborder.jpg" style="width: 65px; height: 40em;" alt="Side Border" />
+ </td>
+ <td style="width: 620px;">
+
+<table class='center' summary='poem'><tr><td>
+<p>
+Away went Gilpin out of breath,<br />
+<span style='margin-left: 1em;'>And sore against his will,</span><br />
+Till at his friend the calender's<br />
+<span style='margin-left: 1em;'>His horse at last stood still.</span></p>
+
+<p>
+The calender, amazed to see<br />
+<span style='margin-left: 1em;'>His neighbour in such trim,</span><br />
+Laid down his pipe, flew to the gate,<br />
+<span style='margin-left: 1em;'>And thus accosted him:</span></p>
+
+<p>
+What news? what news? your tidings tell;<br />
+<span style='margin-left: 1em;'>Tell me you must and shall--</span><br />
+Say why bareheaded you are come,<br />
+<span style='margin-left: 1em;'>Or why you come at all?</span></p>
+
+<p>
+Now Gilpin had a pleasant wit,<br />
+<span style='margin-left: 1em;'>And loved a timely joke;</span><br />
+And thus unto the calender<br />
+<span style='margin-left: 1em;'>In merry guise he spoke:</span></p>
+
+<p>
+I came because your horse would come;<br />
+<span style='margin-left: 1em;'>And, if I well forebode,</span><br />
+My hat and wig will soon be here,<br />
+<span style='margin-left: 1em;'>They are upon the road.</span></p>
+
+<p>
+The calender, right glad to find<br />
+<span style='margin-left: 1em;'>His friend in merry pin,</span><br />
+Return'd him not a single word,<br />
+<span style='margin-left: 1em;'>But to the house went in;</span></p>
+
+<p>
+Thence straight he came with hat and wig,<br />
+<span style='margin-left: 1em;'>A wig that flow'd behind,</span><br />
+A hat not much the worse for wear,<br />
+<span style='margin-left: 1em;'>Each comely in its kind.</span></p>
+</td></tr></table>
+
+ </td>
+ <td style="text-align: right;">
+ <img src="images/rsideborder.jpg" style="width: 65px; height: 40em;" alt="Side Border" />
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td colspan='3'>
+ <img src="images/bottomborder.jpg" width="750" height="161" alt="Bottom Border" />
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+</table>
+
+<hr />
+
+<table class='left' border='0' cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0' summary="Page 4">
+ <tr>
+ <td colspan='3'>
+ <img src="images/topborder.jpg" width="750" height="161" alt="Top Border"/>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td style="width: 65px;">
+ <img src="images/lsideborder.jpg" style="width: 65px; height: 40em;" alt="Side Border" />
+ </td>
+ <td style="width: 620px;">
+
+<table class='center' summary='poem'><tr><td>
+<p>
+He held them up, and in his turn<br />
+<span style='margin-left: 1em;'>Thus show'd his ready wit:</span><br />
+My head is twice as big as yours,<br />
+<span style='margin-left: 1em;'>They therefore needs must fit.</span></p>
+
+<p>
+But let me scrape the dirt away<br />
+<span style='margin-left: 1em;'>That hangs upon your face;</span><br />
+And stop and eat, for well you may<br />
+<span style='margin-left: 1em;'>Be in a hungry case.</span></p>
+
+<p>
+Said John--It is my wedding-day,<br />
+<span style='margin-left: 1em;'>And all the world would stare,</span><br />
+If wife should dine at Edmonton,<br />
+<span style='margin-left: 1em;'>And I should dine at Ware.</span></p>
+
+<p>
+So turning to his horse, he said,<br />
+<span style='margin-left: 1em;'>I am in haste to dine;</span><br />
+'Twas for your pleasure you came here,<br />
+<span style='margin-left: 1em;'>You shall go back for mine.</span></p>
+
+<p>
+Ah, luckless speech, and bootless boast!<br />
+<span style='margin-left: 1em;'>For which he paid full dear;</span><br />
+For while he spake, a braying ass<br />
+<span style='margin-left: 1em;'>Did sing most loud and clear.</span></p>
+
+<p>
+Whereat his horse did snort, as he<br />
+<span style='margin-left: 1em;'>Had heard a lion roar,</span><br />
+And gallop'd off with all his might<br />
+<span style='margin-left: 1em;'>As he had done before.</span></p>
+
+<p>
+Away went Gilpin, and away<br />
+<span style='margin-left: 1em;'>Went Gilpin's hat and wig;</span><br />
+He lost them sooner than at first;<br />
+<span style='margin-left: 1em;'>For why?--they were too big.</span></p>
+</td></tr></table>
+
+ </td>
+ <td style="text-align: right;">
+ <img src="images/rsideborder.jpg" style="width: 65px; height: 40em;" alt="Side Border" />
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td colspan='3'>
+ <img src="images/bottomborder.jpg" width="750" height="161" alt="Bottom Border" />
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+</table>
+
+<hr />
+
+<table class='left' border='0' cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0' summary="Page 4">
+ <tr>
+ <td colspan='3'>
+ <img src="images/topborder.jpg" width="750" height="161" alt="Top Border"/>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td style="width: 65px;">
+ <img src="images/lsideborder.jpg" style="width: 65px; height: 400px;" alt="Side Border" />
+ </td>
+ <td style="width: 620px;">
+
+<p class='center'><img src="images/img6.jpg" width="400" height="348" alt="Illustration" title="" /></p>
+
+ </td>
+ <td style="text-align: right;">
+ <img src="images/rsideborder.jpg" style="width: 65px; height: 400px;" alt="Side Border" />
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td colspan='3'>
+ <img src="images/bottomborder.jpg" width="750" height="161" alt="Bottom Border" />
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+</table>
+
+<hr />
+
+<table class='left' border='0' cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0' summary="Page 4">
+ <tr>
+ <td colspan='3'>
+ <img src="images/topborder.jpg" width="750" height="161" alt="Top Border"/>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td style="width: 65px;">
+ <img src="images/lsideborder.jpg" style="width: 65px; height: 40em;" alt="Side Border" />
+ </td>
+ <td style="width: 620px;">
+
+<table class='center' summary='poem'><tr><td>
+<p>
+Now Mrs. Gilpin, when she saw<br />
+<span style='margin-left: 1em;'>Her husband posting down</span><br />
+Into the country far away,<br />
+<span style='margin-left: 1em;'>She pull'd out half-a-crown;</span></p>
+
+<p>
+And thus unto the youth she said,<br />
+<span style='margin-left: 1em;'>That drove them to the Bell,</span><br />
+This shall be yours when you bring back<br />
+<span style='margin-left: 1em;'>My husband safe and well.</span></p>
+
+<p>
+The youth did ride, and soon did meet<br />
+<span style='margin-left: 1em;'>John coming back amain;</span><br />
+Whom in a trice he tried to stop,<br />
+<span style='margin-left: 1em;'>By catching at his rein;</span></p>
+
+<p>
+But not performing what he meant,<br />
+<span style='margin-left: 1em;'>And gladly would have done,</span><br />
+The frighted steed he frighted more,<br />
+<span style='margin-left: 1em;'>And made him faster run.</span></p>
+
+<p>
+Away went Gilpin, and away<br />
+<span style='margin-left: 1em;'>Went post-boy at his heels.</span><br />
+The post-boy's horse right glad to miss<br />
+<span style='margin-left: 1em;'>The lumbering of the wheels.</span></p>
+
+<p>
+Six gentlemen upon the road,<br />
+<span style='margin-left: 1em;'>Thus seeing Gilpin fly,</span><br />
+With post-boy scampering in the rear,<br />
+<span style='margin-left: 1em;'>They raised the hue and cry:--</span></p>
+
+<p>
+Stop thief! stop thief!--a highwayman!<br />
+<span style='margin-left: 1em;'>Not one of them was mute;</span><br />
+And all and each that pass'd that way<br />
+<span style='margin-left: 1em;'>Did join in the pursuit.</span></p>
+</td></tr></table>
+
+ </td>
+ <td style="text-align: right;">
+ <img src="images/rsideborder.jpg" style="width: 65px; height: 40em;" alt="Side Border" />
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td colspan='3'>
+ <img src="images/bottomborder.jpg" width="750" height="161" alt="Bottom Border" />
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+</table>
+
+<hr />
+
+<table class='left' border='0' cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0' summary="Page 4">
+ <tr>
+ <td colspan='3'>
+ <img src="images/topborder.jpg" width="750" height="161" alt="Top Border"/>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td style="width: 65px;">
+ <img src="images/lsideborder.jpg" style="width: 65px; height: 40em;" alt="Side Border" />
+ </td>
+ <td style="width: 620px;">
+
+<table class='center' summary='poem'><tr><td>
+<p>
+And now the turnpike gates again<br />
+<span style='margin-left: 1em;'>Flew open in short space;</span><br />
+The toll-men thinking, as before,<br />
+<span style='margin-left: 1em;'>That Gilpin rode a race.</span></p>
+
+<p>
+And so he did, and won it too,<br />
+<span style='margin-left: 1em;'>For he got first to town;</span><br />
+Nor stopp'd till where he had got up<br />
+<span style='margin-left: 1em;'>He did again get down.</span></p>
+
+<p>
+Now let us sing, long live the king!<br />
+<span style='margin-left: 1em;'>And Gilpin, long live he;</span><br />
+And when he next doth ride abroad,<br />
+<span style='margin-left: 1em;'>May I be there to see!</span></p>
+</td></tr></table>
+
+<p>
+<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />
+</p>
+
+<p class='center' style='font-size: small;'>LONDON: PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, STAMFORD STREET
+AND CHARING CROSS</p>
+
+ </td>
+ <td style="text-align: right;">
+ <img src="images/rsideborder.jpg" style="width: 65px; height: 40em;" alt="Side Border" />
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td colspan='3'>
+ <img src="images/bottomborder.jpg" width="750" height="161" alt="Bottom Border" />
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+</table>
+
+<hr />
+
+<div class='figcenter'><img src="images/backcover.jpg" width="400" height="542" alt="Back Cover" title="" /></div>
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+<pre>
+
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+Project Gutenberg's The Diverting History of John Gilpin, by William Cowper
+
+This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
+almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or
+re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included
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+
+
+Title: The Diverting History of John Gilpin
+
+Author: William Cowper
+
+Illustrator: Anonymous
+
+Release Date: December 6, 2007 [EBook #23753]
+
+Language: English
+
+Character set encoding: ASCII
+
+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HISTORY OF JOHN GILPIN ***
+
+
+
+
+Produced by Huub Bakker, Jason Isbell and the Online
+Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+ [Illustration: The Diverting History of John Gilpin
+
+ Finely Illustrated]
+
+ [Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+ THE
+
+ DIVERTING HISTORY
+
+ OF
+
+ John Gilpin.
+
+ BY WILLIAM COWPER
+
+ Illustrated.
+
+
+ LONDON: WILLIAM TEGG.
+
+ 1865.
+
+
+
+
+ LONDON:
+
+ PRINTED BY W. CLOWES AND SONS, STAMFORD STREET AND CHARING CROSS
+
+
+ [Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+ THE DIVERTING HISTORY
+
+ OF
+
+ JOHN GILPIN.
+
+
+ John Gilpin was a citizen
+ Of credit and renown,
+ A train-band captain eke was he
+ Of famous London town.
+
+ John Gilpin's spouse said to her dear,
+ Though wedded we have been
+ These twice ten tedious years, yet we
+ No holiday have seen.
+
+ To-morrow is our wedding-day,
+ And we will then repair
+ Unto the Bell at Edmonton,
+ All in a chaise and pair.
+
+ My sister and my sister's child,
+ Myself and children three,
+ Will fill the chaise; so you must ride
+ On horseback after we.
+
+ He soon replied, I do admire
+ Of womankind but one,
+ And you are she, my dearest dear,
+ Therefore it shall be done.
+
+ I am a linendraper bold,
+ As all the world doth know,
+ And my good friend the calender
+ Will lend his horse to go.
+
+ Quoth Mrs. Gilpin, That's well said,
+ And for that wine is dear,
+ We will be furnish'd with our own,
+ Which is both bright and clear.
+
+ John Gilpin kiss'd his loving wife,
+ O'erjoy'd was he to find,
+ That, though on pleasure she was bent,
+ She had a frugal mind.
+
+ The morning came, the chaise was brought
+ But yet was not allow'd
+ To drive up to the door, lest all
+ Should say that she was proud.
+
+ So three doors off the chaise was stay'd,
+ Where they did all get in;
+ Six precious souls, and all agog
+ To dash through thick and thin.
+
+ Smack went the whip, round went the wheels,
+ Were never folks so glad;
+ The stones did rattle underneath,
+ As if Cheapside were mad.
+
+ [Illustration]
+
+ John Gilpin at his horse's side
+ Seized last the flowing mane,
+ And up he got in haste to ride,
+ But soon came down again;
+
+ For saddle-tree scarce reach'd had he,
+ His journey to begin,
+ When, turning round his head, he saw
+ Three customers come in.
+
+ So down he came; for loss of time,
+ Although it grieved him sore,
+ Yet loss of pence, full well he knew,
+ Would trouble him much more.
+
+ 'Twas long before the customers
+ Were suited to their mind,
+ When Betty, screaming, came down stairs,
+ "The wine is left behind!"
+
+ Good lack! quoth he, yet bring it me,
+ My leathern belt likewise,
+ In which I bear my trusty sword,
+ When I do exercise.
+
+ Now Mrs. Gilpin (careful soul!)
+ Had two stone bottles found,
+ To hold the liquor that she loved,
+ And keep it safe and sound.
+
+ Each bottle had a curling ear,
+ Through which the belt he drew,
+ And hung a bottle on each side,
+ To make his balance true.
+
+ Then, over all, that he might be
+ Equipp'd from top to toe,
+ His long red cloak well brush'd and neat,
+ He manfully did throw.
+
+ Now see him mounted once again
+ Upon his nimble steed,
+ Full slowly pacing o'er the stones,
+ With caution and good heed.
+
+ But finding soon another road
+ Beneath his well-shod feet,
+ The snorting boast began to trot,
+ Which gall'd him in his seat.
+
+ So! fair and softly! John he cried,
+ But John he cried in vain;
+ That trot became a gallop soon,
+ In spite of curb and rein.
+
+ So stooping down, as needs he must
+ Who cannot sit upright,
+ He grasp'd the mane with both his hands,
+ And eke with all his might.
+
+ His horse, who never in that sort
+ Had handled been before,
+ What thing upon his back had got
+ Did wonder more and more.
+
+ Away went Gilpin, neck or nought!
+ Away went hat and wig;
+ He little dreamt, when he set out,
+ Of running such a rig.
+
+ [Illustration]
+
+ The wind did blow, the cloak did fly
+ Like streamer long and gay;
+ Till loop and button failing both,
+ At last it flew away.
+
+ Then might all people well discern
+ The bottles he had slung;
+ A bottle swinging at each side,
+ As has been said or sung.
+
+ The dogs did bark, the children scream'd,
+ Up flew the windows all;
+ And every soul cried out, Well done!
+ As loud as he could bawl.
+
+ Away went Gilpin--who but he?
+ His fame soon spread around:
+ He carries weight! he rides a race!
+ 'Tis for a thousand pound!
+
+ And still, as fast as he drew near,
+ 'Twas wonderful to view,
+ How in a trice the turnpike-men
+ Their gates wide open threw.
+
+ And now as he went bowing down
+ His reeking head full low,
+ The bottles twain behind his back
+ Were shattered at a blow.
+
+ Down ran the wine into the road,
+ Most piteous to be seen,
+ Which made his horse's flanks to smoke,
+ As they had basted been.
+
+ But still he seem'd to carry weight,
+ With leathern girdle braced:
+ For all might see the bottle necks
+ Still dangling at his waist.
+
+ Thus all through merry Islington
+ These gambols he did play,
+ Until he came unto the Wash
+ Of Edmonton so gay;
+
+ And there he threw the wash about
+ On both sides of the way,
+ Just like unto a trundling mop
+ Or a wild goose at play.
+
+ At Edmonton his loving wife
+ From the balcony spied
+ Her tender husband, wondering much
+ To see how he did ride.
+
+ Stop, stop, John Gilpin!--Here's the house--
+ They all at once did cry;
+ The dinner waits, and we are tired:
+ Said Gilpin--So am I!
+
+ But yet his horse was not a whit
+ Inclined to tarry there;
+ For why?--his owner had a house
+ Full ten miles off, at Ware.
+
+ So like an arrow swift he flew,
+ Shot by an archer strong;
+ So did he fly--which brings me to
+ The middle of my song.
+
+ [Illustration]
+
+ Away went Gilpin out of breath,
+ And sore against his will,
+ Till at his friend the calender's
+ His horse at last stood still.
+
+ The calender, amazed to see
+ His neighbour in such trim,
+ Laid down his pipe, flew to the gate,
+ And thus accosted him:
+
+ What news? what news? your tidings tell;
+ Tell me you must and shall--
+ Say why bareheaded you are come,
+ Or why you come at all?
+
+ Now Gilpin had a pleasant wit,
+ And loved a timely joke;
+ And thus unto the calender
+ In merry guise he spoke:
+
+ I came because your horse would come;
+ And, if I well forebode,
+ My hat and wig will soon be here,
+ They are upon the road.
+
+ The calender, right glad to find
+ His friend in merry pin,
+ Return'd him not a single word,
+ But to the house went in;
+
+ Thence straight he came with hat and wig,
+ A wig that flow'd behind,
+ A hat not much the worse for wear,
+ Each comely in its kind.
+
+ He held them up, and in his turn
+ Thus show'd his ready wit:
+ My head is twice as big as yours,
+ They therefore needs must fit.
+
+ But let me scrape the dirt away
+ That hangs upon your face;
+ And stop and eat, for well you may
+ Be in a hungry case.
+
+ Said John--It is my wedding-day,
+ And all the world would stare,
+ If wife should dine at Edmonton,
+ And I should dine at Ware.
+
+ So turning to his horse, he said,
+ I am in haste to dine;
+ 'Twas for your pleasure you came here,
+ You shall go back for mine.
+
+ Ah, luckless speech, and bootless boast!
+ For which he paid full dear;
+ For while he spake, a braying ass
+ Did sing most loud and clear.
+
+ Whereat his horse did snort, as he
+ Had heard a lion roar,
+ And gallop'd off with all his might
+ As he had done before.
+
+ Away went Gilpin, and away
+ Went Gilpin's hat and wig;
+ He lost them sooner than at first;
+ For why?--they were too big.
+
+ [Illustration]
+
+ Now Mrs. Gilpin, when she saw
+ Her husband posting down
+ Into the country far away,
+ She pull'd out half-a-crown;
+
+ And thus unto the youth she said,
+ That drove them to the Bell,
+ This shall be yours when you bring back
+ My husband safe and well.
+
+ The youth did ride, and soon did meet
+ John coming back amain;
+ Whom in a trice he tried to stop,
+ By catching at his rein;
+
+ But not performing what he meant,
+ And gladly would have done,
+ The frighted steed he frighted more,
+ And made him faster run.
+
+ Away went Gilpin, and away
+ Went post-boy at his heels.
+ The post-boy's horse right glad to miss
+ The lumbering of the wheels.
+
+ Six gentlemen upon the road,
+ Thus seeing Gilpin fly,
+ With post-boy scampering in the rear,
+ They raised the hue and cry:--
+
+ Stop thief! stop thief!--a highwayman!
+ Not one of them was mute;
+ And all and each that pass'd that way
+ Did join in the pursuit.
+
+ And now the turnpike gates again
+ Flew open in short space;
+ The toll-men thinking, as before,
+ That Gilpin rode a race.
+
+ And so he did, and won it too,
+ For he got first to town;
+ Nor stopp'd till where he had got up
+ He did again get down.
+
+ Now let us sing, long live the king!
+ And Gilpin, long live he;
+ And when he next doth ride abroad,
+ May I be there to see!
+
+
+
+ LONDON: PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS,
+ STAMFORD STREET AND CHARING CROSS
+
+ [Illustration]
+
+
+
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