GREAT BEGINNINGS, 1737
“I couldn’t touch a step and turn a screw,
And set the blooming world a-work for me,
Like such as cut their teeth—I hope, like you—
On the handle of a skeleton gold key;
I cut mine on a leek, which I eat it every week:
I’m a clerk at thirty bob as you can see.”
(the beginning of the poem “Thirty Bob a Week” by John Davidson, 1859-1909)
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