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THE KING AND THE TINKER.
AND now to be breef
And pass our the rest
And come to this joke
Which is now to be past;
And come to King James,
The first on the throne,
A pleasenter Monarch
Sure never was known.
Once he went a chacing
The fair fallow deer,
Where he dropt all his nobles
And of them got clear;
In search of new pleasures
Away he did ride,
Till he came to an ale-house
Hard by a wood side:
And there with a bold Tinkler
He happened to meet.
Who in this kind manner
Did lovingly greet,
What have you got laddie
Into your brown mug,
That under your arm
You so lovingly hug.
