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 Was a walk as far as Chelſea, to demoliſh buns and ale, Sir. O the, &c.

Then the folks ev’ry Sunday went twice at leaſt to church, Sir, And never left the Parſon or his ſermon in the lurch Sir; For they judg’d that the Sabbath was for people to be good in Sir; And they thought it Sabbath-breaking if they din’d without a pudding, Sir. &c.

Then our great men were good and our good men were great, Sir, And the props of the nation were the pillars of the ſtate, Sir; For the ſovereign and the ſubject one interſst ſupported, And our powerful alliance by all pow’rs then was courted. O the, &c.

Then the High and Mighty States, to their everlaſting ſtain, Sir, By Britons were reliev’d from, the galling yoke of Spain, Sir; And the rouſed Britiſh Lion, had all Europe then combin’d, Sir, Undiſmay’d would have ſcatter’d them, like chaff before the wind, Sir. O the, &c.

Thus they ate, and they drank, and they work’d; and they play’d, Sir, Of their friends were not aſhamed, nor of enemies afraid, Sir: