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Excerpt from The Works, Vol. 20
Whatever were his contemplations, they were interrupted, just as he came to a small stream which crossed the road and then wandered along at its side, by first hearing the quick foot-falls of a horse approaching, and then a loud, but fine voice, exclaiming, Who goes there?
A friend to all true men, replied the traveller a foe to all false knaves. 'merry sings the throstle under the thorn.' Which be you, friend of the highway?
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