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And that he'd be conftant, and true to me ftill : And fmce that time I've lik'd him, and like him 1 will.

I often fay, mother, the miller I'll huff ;

She hughs, and cries, go girl, ay, plague him enough;

And fcarce a day pafles but, by her defire,

I get a fly kifs from the youth I admire.

If wedlock he wiflies, his wifti I'll fulfil,

And I'll anfwer, O yes ! with a hearty good will.

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��MY DOGS, AND MY GUN.

VERY mortal lome favorite pleafure purfues, Some to White's run for play, fome to Batfon's

for news ;

To Shuter's droll phiz others thunder anplaufe, And fometriflers delight to hear Nichols's noife; But fuch idle amulements I'll carefully 11 And my pleafurcs confine to my dog and my gun.

Soon as Eha-bus has finim'd his lummer's career, And his maturing aid bleft the hufbandman's care ; When Roger and Nell have eujoy'd harvefl home, And, their labours being o'er, are at leifure to roam ; From the noife of the town and its follies I fun, And I range o'er the fields with my dogs and my gun.

When my pointers around me carefully ftand, And none ilaic^ to itir, but the dog I command ; When the covey he fpriu^s, and I bring down my

bird,

IVe a pleafure no paflime befide can afford : No puftime nor pleafure that's under the fun, L'tin be equal to mine with my dogs and my gun.

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