Comic Songs

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Gold and Walton, 1818
 

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Strana 29 - In itself charming, take new charms from place. Nothing of books, and little known of men, When the mad fit comes on I seize the pen, Rough as they run the rapid thoughts set down, Rough as they run discharge them on the town...
Strana 15 - I am nae Poet, in a sense, But just a Rhymer, like, by chance, An' hae to learning nae pretence, Yet, what the matter ? Whene'er my Muse does on me glance, I jingle at her. Your critic-folk may cock their nose, And say, ' How can you e'er propose, You wha ken hardly verse frae prose, To mak a sang ?' But, by your leaves, my learned foes, Ye're maybe wrang.
Strana 8 - Why, you don't mean," says Jack, " that you've got a mate, You know you promised me." — Says she, " I couldn't wait, For no tidings could I gain of you, Jack Robinson. And somebody one day came to me, and said, That somebody else had somewhere read, In some newspaper as how you was dead ; " "I've not been dead at all
Strana 19 - ... pale? Will, when looking well can't move her, Looking ill prevail? Prithee, why so pale? Why so dull and mute, young sinner? Prithee, why so mute? Will, when speaking well can't win her, Saying nothing do't?
Strana 15 - ... I'm much mistaken, Eat for breakfast a pound of bacon. But now our Toms and Jerrys gay, sir, See larks by nights and not by day, sir ; Get in rows, and have long parleys, And, to save their bacon, floor the charleys. Sing hey, sing ho, &c. When this very place, now covered over, Was a field of...
Strana 14 - And ladies' sides were hoop'd like barrels. Sing hey, sing ho ! I can but grieve For the good old days of Adam and Eve. When drinking ale made strong men stronger, And doctors made folks live the longer ; When our grand-dads brew'd stout October, And thought it a sin to go to bed sober : Then was the time for games and gambols...
Strana 17 - dogs' meat," did this dogs'-meat man. Then her cat would run out to the dogs'-meat man, And rub against the barrow of the dogs'-meat man, As right opposite to her door he 'd stand, And cry "Dogs' Meat,
Strana 9 - Ah! dear me! so much the worse— it has a .shocking deathy appearance to see two in a house. Come rich and poor and low and high, Good folks of all conditions ; You have only when you wish to die To send for two physicians. Doctor Bolus first drew near, And felt his pulse — " Oh fever !" Says t'other " sir, — oh dear ! oh dear !
Strana 8 - I'll get a ship, and go to Holland, France, and Spain ; No matter where — to Portsmouth I'll ne'er come back again.
Strana 30 - twas only love that made her bad, He very kindly said, that she had better have the lad ; The sight of him soon made her well, as well as well could be ; They married — she had Roger ! — and Roger, be had she ! THE HISTORY OF PADDY DENNY'S WIFE AND HIS PIG.

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