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A light parlour and a stove to hold A constant fire, from winter’s cold, Where you may sit, and think, and sing, far off from court, God bless the King.

Safe from the harpies of the law, 'rem party rage, and great men’s paw ; lave a few choice friends of your own cast; 1. wife agreeable and chaste.

An open, yet a constant mind, Where guilty cares no entrance find ; Nor miser’s fears, nor envy’s spight, To break the sabbath of the night.

Plain equipage, and temperate meals, few taylors, and r.o doctor’s bills; Content to take as Heaven shall please, A larger or a shorter lease.

The narrow Efcape of MURPHY DELANEY;

IT was Morphy Delaney fo funny and frifky, reel’d into a gin. fhop to pet his fkn full; And popp’d but again pretty well in’d with whilky, as frefh as a fhamrock and as blind as a bull. When a trffing accindent happen'd our Rover, who took, the water fide for the floor of his fhad, And the keel of a coal barge he juft tumbled over, and thought ail the while ho was going to bed.

C H O R U S.

And fing phili u, hanbaboo, whack, boderation, Ev’ry man in his humour, as league kifa’d the pig.