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14 22. Horses ye bought that would not tame,

Crib-biters, reesters, blind, and lame,

And sold them under some false name

At far-off fairs.

Telling your victims that ye eamecame [sic]

From Girn-the-Hares.

23. Why wish our souls to cash confined,

The object of a grov'ling mind?

And why to polities be blind?'

We have good cause

To learn, as well as all mankind,

Our rights and laws.

24. We have a firm determination,

To know the business of the nation,

Its government and legislation,

Top, branch, and root;

Without this much of information

A man's a brute.

25. Nought seemingly can you unfold

But money make and inoney hold,

By means that ne'crne'er [sic] before were told,

Though used, forsooth,

By you, that has exchanged for gold,

Honour and truth.

26. Still, money we do not despise,

Nor yctyet [sic] above its value prize;

If ever in this world we rise

To have a mailing,

It will not be by tricks and lies,

And double-dealing.

27. Who to believe could e'er be given,

That any parent under heaven,

Would tell his sons, by av'rice driven,

Than marry poor,

Untochered lasses, they were even

Better to wh—re!