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 The Dutch danc'd with Duncan a while,
 * The Spaniards they did dance with Jervis,

But that reel at the mouth of the Nile,
 * has done all your young dancers a ſervice.

The Danes they would fain have a dance,
 * wi' Nelſon they open'd the ball too;

And altho' they had leſſons from France,
 * we learnt them the old jig of Malta.

If our bagpipers play you a ſpring,
 * you'll call't an Egyptian wedding.

Where you learnt the old Highland fling,
 * but took care not to ſtay to the bedding

Our Sailors the brit jig will play,
 * and us wi' our wee pickle meal O.

We'll dance you Sir Sidney's Strathſpey,
 * As ſoon as you leave your flotillas.

Your dancing has but bad effects,
 * or the Cropptes are ſurely a' joking,

By tying of ropes round their necks,
 * and dancing till ſome of them's choking.

If you learn them ſuch as thoſe,
 * in views of republican fancies,

I'I just rather take to my broſe,
 * and ſtick to my auld faſhion'd dances.

In dancing you're ſam'd, it is true,
 * but what do we care for cottilions?

We'll ſhew you the Red and the Blue;
 * we'll pay little reſpect to your millions:

For Geordy will father the throne, and ſee who dares come for to own it,