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2 Captain Mulligan.

Love’s a plague by night and by day, When that post you run your skull again, Lore it was or Kitty O'Shea, That bothered the heart of the brave Captain Mulligan. Brisk and merrily, light and gay, Stout and steadily, smart and readily, Soft and funnily, blythe and bonnily, Quite an Adonis was Captain Mulligan ; He was willing, she was killing, Soft she cried to brave O’Mulligan : 0, you jewed ! Cruel, jewel, willing, killing, Captain Mulligan.

Shoulders rising over his ears, Face just like the moon in full again, Legs in shape like a tailor's shears. You ne’er saw the fellow of Captain Mulligan, Limping, twaddling, Miss O Shea ; Glances pitching him, quite bewitching him Ogling bonnily, squinting funnily, She was a Venus to Captain Mulligan, “O, sweet Kitty, you’re so pretty| " Soft he cried the brave O’ Mulligan ; “ 0, sweet Kitty ! Pretty, witty, Kitty, pity Captain Mulligan"

Married, how they alter'd their tune Love once fierce, faith ! soon grew cold again,, When they pass'd the sweet honey-moon She blacken'd the eye of brave Captain Mulligan