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The Cobbler of Burgos

Where onions shed their perfume, son, remain,

Thy presence spare.

“Yes, spare us all thy Spanish odours strong;

Return unto thy country, Sancho—go;

And as a blessing on thy journey long,

Stoop, kiss our toe.”

And when Sancho got back to Burgos he was met by Don Pedro de Torrezon, who, half in anger and half in sorrow, exclaimed—

“Good Sancho, I would spend eternity

Surrounded by the pains of purgat’ry,

Than be restored unto this mortal life,

Where purgat’ry is but the name for wife.”

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