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23 it will be when we are all, to see how that man's red nose  make the water biz when it comes  it; at which words they all fell  laughing and cherished the crew, so  they made another attempt to eather out, and got all safe ashore at.

My lovely Bet, the beauty of old, thy hoary head, and louching incline to mortality; yet I compare thee to the Eagle that  renewed her youth, or leek with  white head and a green tail, this  to thee with my kind compliments for kisses of thy lips and the  I had for thy late bed fellow,  Pate, my brother pensioner; how we drank others healths with broe of the bucket ewes, we brought  boughts of the German Boors;  it's nonsense to praise the dead,  in the dust, yet a better Vialer  freeded on a silken cord, or littled a cat's trypes wi' his finger-ends,