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Then let Blacksmiths be toasted around,
For well it may be always said,
When a fortune by Blacksmiths is found,
They must hit the right nail o' the head.
For well it may be always said,
When a fortune by Blacksmiths is found,
They must hit the right nail o' the head.
No irony now I’m about,
To his metal you’ll find him still true,
Since I’ve hammer’d his history out,
I hope ’twill be temper'd by you.
Sing fal de la, &c.
To his metal you’ll find him still true,
Since I’ve hammer’d his history out,
I hope ’twill be temper'd by you.
Sing fal de la, &c.
———O———
The Cobler and his Wife.
Last week I took a wife,
And when I first did woo her,
I vow’d to stick thro’ life
Like Cobler’s wax unto her:
But soon we went, by some mishap,
To loggerheads together,
And when my wife began to strap.
Why I began to leather.
And when I first did woo her,
I vow’d to stick thro’ life
Like Cobler’s wax unto her:
But soon we went, by some mishap,
To loggerheads together,
And when my wife began to strap.
Why I began to leather.
My wife, without her shoes,
Is hardly three feet seven;
And I, to all men’s views,
Am full five feet eleven.
So when, to take her down same pegs,
I drubb’d her neat and clever;
She made a bolt right through ray legs,
And ran away for ever.
Is hardly three feet seven;
And I, to all men’s views,
Am full five feet eleven.
So when, to take her down same pegs,
I drubb’d her neat and clever;
She made a bolt right through ray legs,
And ran away for ever.
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