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The FLIGHTS.

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Yet shall the fqguire, who fought on bloody (lumps,

By future bards be wail’d in doleful dumps. All in the land of Efl'm next he chaunts, How to {leek mares fiarch Quaker: turn gallants; I m How the grave brother flood on bank to green: Happy for him if mares had never been ! Then he was feiz’d with a religious qualm, And on a fudden fung the hundredth Pfalm. He fung of Tafey-Wel/lq, and Sawney-Sut, I I; Lilly-éullero and the [rifle Trot7 Why fhould I tell of Batman or of Share, Or Wantley’s dragon flain by valiant Moore, The bow’r of Rofamond, or Roéin Hood, I :9 And how the grafs now grows where Troy town flood ‘3 His carrols ceas’d : The lifi’ning maids and. fwaius Seem fiill to hear fome foft imperfea firains. Sudden he rofe ; and as he reels along, Swears kifl‘es fweet fliould well reward his fang. , The dami‘els laughing fly; the giddy clown {25 Again upon a wheat-{heaf drops adown ; The pow°r that guards the drunk, his fleep atends, ”Till ruddy, like his face, the sun descends.

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