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Nothing like Grog

PLAGUE of those mu ty old lubbers, Who tell us to fast and to think, d with patience fall in with life's rubbers, With rothing but water to drink: ann of good stuff, had thy twirg'r! it, I'weuld have set them with pleasure agog, And spight of the rules Of the Schools The old fools (uld all of 'em swiggd it, and swere there was nothing like grog.

father, when last; from Guinea eturn'd with abundance of wealth, d, Jack, never be such a ninny
 * to drink-says I, Father your health:

shew'd him the stuff, and he twigg'd its nd it set the old codger agog, And he swigg'd, and mother And sister and brother, I swiyg'd, and all of us swigg'd it. swore there was not nothing like grog.

er day as the chaplain was preaching, hind him I curiously slunk while he our duty was teaching, how we should never get inn v'd him the stuff and hit, d it soon set his rev'rence agog,

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