Page:Excellent old song, called, The battle of the Boyn, or, King William crossing the Boyn water.pdf/5

 5 King William as our General, no marfhal e’er was braver With hat in hand his valiant men, he thank’d for their behavior.

We'll fheath our fwords and reft a whiles in time we'll follow after:. Thefe words king William fpoke with a fmile, that day he crofs’d the water.

That pattern day proved too hot, for king James and his army, He choofed rather to retreat, than ftand and be disarmed.

We’ll give our prayer both, night and day, both now and ever after, And let us ne’er forget the day , king James ran from the water.

Paddy Carey's Fortune.

’Twas at the town of nate Clogheen, That Serjeant Snap met Paddy Carey; A claner boy was never seen, Brisk as a bee, light as fairy : His brawny shoulders, four feet square, his cheeks like thumping red potatoes; His legs would make a chairman stare! And Pat was lov’d by all the ladies! Old and young, grave or sad,