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THE CHIMNEY SLEEPER.

IN various shapes I’ve oft been known,

to please your ears and eyes ;

Nor I the only one in town,

that wears the black disguise.

Sweep! fweep! Iweep!—foot ho!

In spite of mocks, or flouts, or jeers,

a truth I must impart;

No chimney half so foul appears,

as doth the human heart. Sweep! &c.

The learned Lawyers could they win,

to give their Briefs to me,

From foul demurs and many a sin,

my brush would set them free. Sweep! &c.

Observe the Doctors as they roll,

to scrape off all degrees,

Much sweeping wants such sooty souls,

all clog’d with filth and fees. Sweep! &c.

Behold yon Priest so neat and trim,

that vicious rev’rend Beau !—

There’s no such thing as cleansing him,

the devil and l do know  Sweep! &c.

The Statseman with that brow severe,

had been as well forgot.

His conscience is as ermine clear,

and therefore needs me not. Sweep ! &c.

Printed by J. & M. Robertson, Saltmtuket, 1799.