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 SPOKEN Why the should they? you know they are obliged to suport a kind of dignified character: Now I change mine as often as I please; for, like a uggle, I can deal in legerdemain, as I sit ambidexter and an use both Jands like an attorney; and as to honesty, at's an accomplishment dangers little encouragement ow a days, its a mere-

Tol de rol, &c.

Like a sailor from the wars, covered over with scars, When I chose in that character to beg, My knuckles I hold flat, and with t'other arm my hat, And this way I hold up my dog.

POKEN.] Come my nofile me mate had to your charity pon a poor se man flamed, in the service, tamped in his arboard gam, his knee braces shot sway. and turned ut of the service without a smart ticket. Sings

"Now dashed upon the billows, Her, opening timbers creak, &c.

Here my good fellow, there's something for you; you ave been an honour to your countsy. An honour ma- n, to be sure I have; but like most honourable gentle en, my honour consists in my-

Tol de rol, &c.

There's Dolly, and I, as ballads we cry On a couple of stools see us stand, While she hauls aloud as the folk passes I then takes my fiddle in hand. [by,

POKEN.] Come neighbours and friends, here is an er- ellent-new long; entitled and called, in a vild and oving boy." Come, Dick, play up. Stop Molly, let rosin the bew a bit first. Sings.