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 ( 23 ) your butter-milk, a pair of your old breechcſ, ſtocking or ſhoer, or even a chaw of tabacco for charity's ſake.

A CREED FOR ROMISH BELIEVERS.

I BELIEVE the Pope of Romes to be the right heir and true ſocceſſor of Peter the Apoſtle, and at he has a power above the king of the world, being ſpiritual and temporal, endowed with communication far beg you the grave and can bring up any ise, or departed ſhoul he pleaſes, even as the a devil in its woman of Endor brought up Samuel to Bead. Soul by the ſame power he can, aſſiſted by the enchantments of old Massab, king in Iſrael. I believe alſo in the Romith prieſt, that they are very civil chaſte gentleman, keep so wives of their w, but partakes a little of other men's wives it ſecret confeſſion, I acknowledge the worſhipping of images and relicks of ſhaints departed to be very jut, but if they bear and do not help us, O they are but a parcel of ungreatful wretches.

The PLOUGHMAN' GLORY, or, TOM' SONG.

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

The lark in the morning rises from her neſt and mounts in the air with the dew upon her beat, and with the jolly plowman the's whiſtle and ſhe'll ſing And at night ſhe ll return to her net back again,