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 [ 4 ] SPOKEN. Uhen you. know when they came to chair him, I was no longer, you fee, an odd man, there was a pair of chairmen And fure fuch a pair was ne’er feen by my foul, As his honour and Paddy O Blarney.

But this notion of greatnefs was none of the worft, Oh ! the world for the Lake, of Kilkarney, Having play’d ad fiddle, I thought I’d play ift. Can’t ye let alone Paddy O Blamey; So fwearing to plunder and never to fpeak, I my qualification took out and turn’d Greek.

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Ah ! to be fure we did not make a pretty dove houfe of our Pharoah Bank ; let me fee, me. pidgeon'd, ay fair, and plucked them com- p'etely too. Tour tradesmen & fix bankers'clerks in one week, Will you let alone Paddy O Blarney.

A big man in all circles fo gay and polite, Ah ! the world for the Lakes of Kilkarney ; I found one larnt grown up Jolman to write, Juft to finifh gay Paddy O Blarney, I firft learnt my name, till fo fond of it grown, I don’t fay I’d better have let it alone

SPOKEN. But by my foul and confcience, it had like to have finifhed me in good earneft; for you fee I-juf-wrote Another Joleman’s fignature ftead of my own, What a devil of a Pady O Blarney.

But fince fate didn’t chufe for to noofe me that day, Ah ! the world for the Lakes O Kilkarney, With a Venus of nintey I next ran away. What a fine dafhing Paddy O Blarney :