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JOHN OF BADENYON,
WHEN 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,
