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( 11 ) Although upon the open ſtreet,

not one of all the throng

Shall ever ſee you in the leaſt,

but hear the muſic ſound;

And wonder that both man and beaſt

is forc’d to dance around.

Jack took the coat, and bagpipes too,

and thankfully did ſay,

Old father, I will call on you,

whene’er I come this way.

CHAP. V.

Of his making ſix FIDLERS dance over

HEDGE and DITCH till they brake

all their GLASSES and CROWDS.

TH!S Coat and Pipe he having got,

he homewards trudg’d with ſpeed,

At length it was his happy lot,

to croſs a pleaſant mead;

Where he ſix fidlers ſoon eſpy’d

returning from the fair;

Under their coats crowds by their ſides

with many others there.

Among the reſt, ſix jolly blades,

did with their crowders come:

Who on their ſhouiders carry’d crates,

and glaſſes in the ſame.

Jack preſently his coat put on,

that ſkreen'd him from their ſight,