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( 8 )         The gentry to the ſign of the Crown, The merchant you know to the gold fleece will go. And a way to the plough goes the clown. The clergyman you know to the miter he                will go, The Soldier to the ſign of the gun The butcher you know to the black bull will go. And the friar to the ſign of the nun The drover you know to the ſavage will go, Which humanity hath marked with scorn, The huntsman you know to his hounds he               will go             And the cuckold to the ſign of the horn. The player you know to the ſhakespare will go, The ſailor to the archor and can, (0         The lawyer you know to the devil he will go            And the maid to to the ſign of the man,          The Iriſh you know on potatoes he will dine          The Welchman on hard toaſted cheese,          The Scotsmann you know to his crowdy he                  will go,            And the Engliſhman to his ducks and peaſe          The Frenchman to his alamode will go,            And dine at the thirteen cantoon          The philosopher you know in his air baloon will go,            For to dine with the man of the moon.          So every man to his humour he will go,            You thus search from north to the ſouth,          And he that has not of a penny in his purſe:            He may oint at the ſign at the mouth,