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[ 23 ] euite, a tun of your beer a keg of your rum, with pipe of your wine, a lump of your gold, a piece f your ſilver, with a few of your halfpence or farthings, a waught of butter milk a pair of your old reeches, ſtockings, or ſhoes, or even a chaw of to- cco, for charity's ſake.

PADY's CREED FOR IRISH BELIEVERS.

I BELIEVE the Pope of Rome to be the right heir and true ſucceſſor of Father Peter the Apoſtle; And that he has a power above the kings of the world; which is ſpiritual and temporal, endowed with a communication from beyond the grave, and can bring up any departed Soul (that is to ſay a devil in its head) he pleaſes, even as the woman of Endor brought upSamuel to Saul, by the ſame power he can be aſſiſted by the enchantment of old Manaſſeh, king in Iſrael, I believe alſo in the Romiſh prieſts, that they are very civil chaſte ſhentlemen, keeps no wives of their own, but partake a little of other men's when in ſe et confeſſion I acknowledge the worſhiping of images, an relies, and if they hear and do not help, they are but a parcel of ungrateful wretches.

PLOUGHMAN's GLORY; or TOM'S SONG.

AS I was walking one morning in the ſpring, I heard a young plowman ſo ſweetly did ſing, And as he was ſinging theſe words he did ſay, No life is like a plowman's in the month of May.

The lark in the morning riſes from her veſt, And mounts in the air with the dew upon her breaſt And with the jolly plowman ſhe'll whiſtle and ſing, And at sight ſhe'll return to her neſt back again.