"For the next inn he spurs amain, In haste alights, and skuds away, But time and tide for no man stay."
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The Sweet-Scented Miser, line 98.
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William Somervile
William Somervile, sometimes reported as Somerville (2 September 1675 β 19 July 1742) was an English poet.
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