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 Of and  there are plenty, To gues at which you'll double times : When that is done, you then may take , To make the number near, add more. 'What!' cry'd, Five and twenty score,' When thus reply'd, Aye, many more.'

Now seem'd surpris'd, and  star'd, And thought  could not be compared, Nor sweet, or  so divine, To what he found below, and : The quaffd flowing bumpers, with true zest, To toasted-Then retir'd to rest.

Next day rambl'd round the Town, and swore, 'That such a place they never saw before:' visited our, and, wond'ring, found Some thousand tons of Coal pil'd on the ground, And scores of boats, in length full sixty feet, With loads of mineral fuel, quite replete ; Whilst carts, and country waggons, filled each space, And loaded teams stood rang'd around the place. The Gods beheld the whole with great surprise, And ask'd, from whence we gain d such large supplies ?' For, tho' well vers'd in all scenes, They here were pos'd, to find our 'Ways and Means.'—