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 ( 2 ) THE PRUNKEN TAR OF SUNDERLAND.

Ye jolly Sailers, brifk and brare, that brirg home wealth and treafure, When ye get ftore of fhining gold, you will have joy and pleafure! Your landlord and your landlady will ftrive for to delight you. But if they drain away your gold, O dear how they will flight you!

Jack being fick, and treafure gone; his landlady did foold him. And when tie call’d for meat or drink, fhe feoinfully refus’d him. He being fick, and likewife drunk, to the Cober’s ftall he mounted ; And being turned out of doors, he fleep’d, he fnor’d, he gaunted;

Which made all thofe that paffed by, to wonder what he wanted ! Among the reft a noble Lord's young, charming, lovely daughter, Who ftood at her own father’s gate, converfing with her lover. The Sailor then he did wake, and did their plot difcover,