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 JOHN OF BADENYON,

HEN firſt I came to be a man, of twenty years or ſo, I thought myſelf a handſome youth, aud ſain, the wor'd would know. In beſt attire I ſtept abroad with ſpirits briſk and gay, And here and there aud every-where, was like a morn in May: I had no care, nor fear or want, but rambled up and down; And for a beau I might have paſs’d in country or in town: I ſtill was pleas’d where’er I went, aud when I was alone, I tun’d my pipe and pleas’d myſelf with John of Badenyou,

Now in the days of youthful prime, a miſtreſs I muſt find; For love, they ſay gives one an air, and even improves the mind; On Pryliss fair above the reſt, kind fortune fix’d my eyes. Her piercing beauty ſtruck my heart, and l became net priſes,