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JOHN o’ BADENYON.
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When first I came to be a man
of twenty years or so,
I thought myself a handsome youth,
and fain the world would know;
In bell attire I kept abroad,
with spirits brisk and gay,
And here and there, and every-where,
was like a morn in May.
No cares I had, nor fears of 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-e'er I went,
and when I was alone,
I tun’d my pipe, and pleas’d myself
wi’ John o’ Badenyon.
Now, in the days of youthful prime,
a mistress I must find,
For love, I heard, gave one an air,
and ev'n improv’d the mind,
