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<DATE>2008-03-04</DATE>
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<NAME>Elspeth Healey</NAME>
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<ITEM>Proofed and reviewed as part of batch B080142.pdcc.</ITEM>
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<VID>180043</VID>
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<HEAD>To a Plea&s;ant New TUNE CALL'D A Pot of Good Ale.</HEAD>
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<L>GOOD people, what! will you of all be bereft?</L>
<L>Will you never Learn Wit, whil'&s;t a penny's left?</L>
<L>W'are all like the Dog in the Fable betray'd;</L>
<L>To let go the Sub&s;tance, and &s;nap at th' Shade.</L>
<L>The&s;e Specious Pretences,</L>
<L>And Foreign Expences.</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">o war for Religion will wa&s;t all our <HI>Chink</HI>:</L>
<L>It's Snipt, and it's Clipt;</L>
<L>And it's Spent, and it's Lent,</L>
<L><HI>'Till it's gone; 'till it's gone, to th' Devil, I think.</HI></L>
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<L>We pay for our <HI>New-born,</HI> and pay for our <HI>Dead</HI>:</L>
<L>We pay if we are <HI>Single,</HI> and pay if we <HI>Wed,</HI></L>
<L>Which &s;hews our unmerciful <HI>Senate</HI> don't fail,</L>
<L>To begin with the Head, and Tax down to th' Tail.</L>
<L>We pay through the No&s;e.</L>
<L>For Subjecting our Foes;</L>
<L>Yet for all our Expences, get nothing but Blows.</L>
<L>Abroad we are Defeated;</L>
<L>At Home we are Cheated.</L>
<L><HI>And th' End on't, the End on t, The Lord above knows.</HI></L>
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<L>We've parted with all our old Money, to &s;hew</L>
<L>Ho we fooli&s;hly hop'd, for a plenty of New,</L>
<L>But might have remember'd when't comes to a Pu&s;h</L>
<L>A bird in the Hand, is worth two in the Bu&s;h.</L>
<L>We now like poor Wretches,</L>
<L>Are kept Shut, under Hatches</L>
<L>At <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">ack, and at Manger, like Bea&s;t in the Ark</L>
<L>Since our Burge&s;&s;es and Knights,</L>
<L>Makes us pay for our Lights;</L>
<L><HI>Why &s;hou'd we, Why &s;hou'd we, be kept in the Dark.</HI></L>
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<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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