Excerpt from Voyage of Ass: A Tale of Love and Adventure in Old London, the Stanza Being That of the Cherrie and the Slae Ass laughed, I have watched thee before, That art more lovely than thy store, But never in such rays. Though starven to the pit in thee, My everlasting heart goes free As are thy Virelays. For who would lose a finer thing Than king or pope bestows, By fear of man's outrageous sting The thorn still guards the rose. 0 city sans pity, I love thee 'yond my peers Stern physic sends music Into an ass's ears. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.