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( 9 ) An old HERMIT gives JACK an inviſible

COAT and a Pair of enchanted PIPES,

witb which he plays many Tricks.

UPON a pleaſant holiday

Jack going to a fair,

And as he past along the way

he ſaw a wonder there:

An aged man ſat in a cave

that could not ſtand nor go:

His head wore bloſſoms of the grave,

and look’d as white as ſnow:

Strange hollow eyes and wrinkled brow,

his noſe and chin did meet:

To him Jack Horner made a bow,

with words ſo ſoft and ſweet:

He call’d to him, and thus did ſay,

come hither lad to me,

And if thou doſt my will obey

rewarded thou ſhalt be: