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(2)  JOHN o’ BADENYON.

W first I came to be a man

of twenty years or so,

I thought myself a handsome youth,

and fain the world would know;

In bell attire I kept abroad,

with spirits brisk and gay,

And here and there, and every-where,

was like a morn in May.

No cares I had, nor fears of want,

but rambled up and down,

And for a beau I might have pass'd

in country or in town;

I still was pleas’d where-e'er I went,

and when I was alone,

I tun’d my pipe, and pleas’d myself

wi’ John o’ Badenyon.

Now, in the days of youthful prime,

a mistress I must find,

For love, I heard, gave one an air,

and ev'n improv’d the mind,