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O my muse give attentions
 * and deem it not a mystery,

If we jumble together music,
 * poetry, and history:

The times to display in
 * the days of Queen Bess, Sir,

Whose name and whole mem'ry
 * posterity may bless, Sir

O the golden days of good Queen Bess;
 * Merry be the memory of good Queen Bess,

Then we laugh'd at the bugbears
 * of Dons and Armadas.

With their gunpowder puffs,
 * and their blustering bravadoes:

For we knew how to manage both
 * the musket and the bow, Sir,

And could bring down a Spaniard
 * just as easy, as a crow, Sir. O the, &c,

Then our streets were all pav'd,
 * and our houses were thatch'd, Sir,

Our windows were latch'd,
 * and our doors only latch'd, Sir;

Yet so few were the folks that
 * would plunder and rob, Sirs