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Behap what will, next Sunday after prayers, 125
When to the ale-house Lubberkin repairs,
These golden flies into his mug I'll throw,^[1]
And soon the swain with fervent love shall glow.
 With my sharp heel I three times mark the ground,
And turn me thrice around, around, around. 130

 But hold—our Light-foot barks, and cocks his ears,^[2]
O'er yonder stile see Lubberkin appears.
He comes, he comes, Hobnelia's not bewray'd,
Nor shall she, crown'd with willow, die a maid.
He vows, he swears, he'll give me a green gown,
Oh dear! I fall adown, adown, adown! 136

 

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1. Line 127.
   —————— Ποντὀν κακὀν ἂυριον ὀισῶ.Theoc.
   
   
2. 131. Nescio quid certe est: Et Hylax in limine latrat.

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