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Go call a coach, and let a coach be called; And let the man who calleth be the caller; And in his calling let him nothing call But "Coach! Coach! Coach! Oh for a coach, ye gods!"
Go call a coach, and let a coach be called; And let the man who calleth be the caller; And in his calling let him nothing call But "Coach! Coach! Coach! Oh for a coach, ye gods!"
Approximate author period: c. 1703 AD · early modern
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- Author or tradition
- Henry Carey
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- Approximate author period: c. 1703 AD · early modern
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- Familiar Quotations, ninth edition (1905 printing) (1905 AD)
Chrononhotonthologos. Act ii. Sc. 4.
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