Royal District Nursing Service

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“The captain sat in a commodore’s hat
And dined in a royal way
On toasted pigs and pickles and figs
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Still clutching the inviolable shade.”
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“His character as one of the fathers of the English language would alone make his works important, even those which have little poetical merit. He was as simple as Wordsworth in preferring his homely but vigorous Saxon tongue, when it was neglected by the court, and had not yet attained to the dignity of a literature, and rendered a similar service to his country to that which Dante rendered to Italy.”
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