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Rh He'll take you round to Macassar, and you'll come back alone;

He knows what I want o' the Mary. . . . I'll do what I please with my own.

Your mother 'ud call it wasteful, but I've seven-and-thirty more;

I'll come in my private carriage and bid it wait at the door. . ..

For my son 'e was never a credit: 'e muddled with books and art,

And 'e lived on Sir Anthony's money and 'e broke Sir Anthony's heart.

There isn't even a grandchild, and the Gloster family's done—

The only one you left me, O mother, the only one!

Harrer and Trinity College—me slavin' early an' late—

An' he thinks I'm dying crazy, and you're in Macassar Strait!

Flesh o' my flesh, my dearie, for ever an' ever amen,

That first stroke come for a warning; I ought to ha' gone to you then,