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Born is a Cellar, . . . and living in a Garret.

Say, when the ground our father Adam till'd, And mother Eve the humble distaff held, Who then his pedigree presumed to trace, Or challenged the prerogative of place? [Lat., Primus Adam duro cum vertet arva ligone, Pensaque de vili deceret Eva colo: Ecquis in hoc poterat vir nobilis orbe videri? Et modo quisquam alios ante locandue erir?

He made him a hut, wherein he did put The carcass of Robinson Crusoe. O poor Robinson Crusoe!