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...upon a tomb that that he had caused to be built in his life time: " Ten in the hundred lies in this grave, But a hundred to ten whether God will him have, Who then must be interred in this tombe, Oh ! (quoth the devill), my John-a-Combe." Mr. Steevens took the trouble to...

...upon Avon, a notable Usurer, fastened upon a Tombe that he had caused to be built in his Life-Time: " Ten in the hundred must lie in his grave, «'But a...tombe ? " Oh (quoth the divill) my John a Combe." lie died in-the 53d year of his age,* and was buried on the before the year 1618) than that delivered...

...**n Per cen*- '^ie crude lines when first printed in 1618 took this form : Tcn-in -t lie-hundred moat lie in his grave, But a hundred to ten whether God...him have. Who then must be interr'd in this tombe T Oh, quoth the Divill, my Jolm-a-Combo. The first couplet would seem to have been adapted from an...

...ra(ie of jan per cent. The crude lines when first printed in 1618 took this form : Ten-in-the-hnndied must lie in his grave, But a hundred to ten whether God will him have. Who then must be interr'd in t his tombe T Oh, quoth the Divill, my John-a-Combe. The first couplet would seem to have been adapted...

...save his reputation. On his tomb were 'fastened' (sometime before 1618) the lines: Ten-in-the-Hundred must lie in his grave, But a hundred to ten, whether God will him have. Who then must be interr'd within this tomb ? 'Oh, oh,' quoth the Devil, 'my John a Combe !'2 This doggerel (and Shakespeare wrote...

...^he cru(ie lines were first committed to print in 1618 when they took this form : Ten-in-the-hundred must lie in his grave, But a hundred to ten whether...interr'd in this tombe ? Oh, quoth the Divill, my John-a-Combe. The first couplet would seem to have been adapted from an epigram devised to cast ridicule...