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 Trip upon Trenchers.

A melancholy Song.

TRIP upon trenchers, and dance upon difhes,

My mother fent me for fome barm, fome barm;

She bid me tread lightly, and come again quickly,

For fear the young men fhou'd do me fome harm.

Yet didn't you fee, yet didn't you fee,

What naughty tricks they put upon me:

They broke my pitcher,