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With religion to guide us- with laws we revere, With a Monarch we love, and a God whom we fear, ' Shall the (laves of vile defpots with freemen contend, Who've fuch bleflings to fight for, fuch rights to defend ?

Heart of oak, &c.

Let them boaft if they will of fome vicVries gain'd, Of their murders committed, and plunder obtain'd, 'Twas by gold or by art, they thefe triumphs atchiev'd, Help'd by traitors they paid, or by fools they deceiv'd. Heart of oak, &c.

Then give to Old England a loud hearty cheer, Here's a halter for thofe who would welcome them

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Let us join heart and hands, boys, and merrily ting, Rule, Britannia, for ever, and God fave the King. Heart of oak, &c.

��THE HARE COURSE.

THE moment Aurora peep'd into the room, I put on my cloaths, and I call'd for my groom ; Will Whittle by this had uncoupled the hounds, Who, lively and mettlefome, frifk'd o'er the grounds. And we're all faddled, fleet, dapple and grey, Seem'd longing to hear the glad found, hark, away !

'Twas now, by the clock, about five in the morn, And we all gallopp'cl oif to the found of the horn ; Jack Gater, Bill Babbler, and Dick at the gooie ; When all of a fudden, out ftarts miftrefs Pufs. Men, horfes, and dogs, not a moment would flay, And echo was heard to cry, hark, hark away !

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