And when fairly run down, the fox yields up his breath, The high-mettled racer is in at the death. Grown aged, us'd up, and turn'd out of the stud, Lame, spavin'd, and ́ wind-gall'd, but yet with some blood, While knowing postillions his pedigree trace, Tell his dam won that sweepstakes, his sire won that race: And what matches he'd won to the ostlers count o'er, As they loiter their time by some hedge-alehouse door; Whilst the harness sore galls, and the spurs his sides goad, The high-mettled racer's a hack on the road. At length, old and feeble, trudging early and late, And now, cold and lifeless, exposed to view CEASE, CEASE; THOSE SIGHS I CANNOT BEAR. CEASE, cease; those sighs I cannot bear ; Eliza, bid thy soldier go; Why thus my heart-strings sever? Ah! be not then my honour's foe, Or I am lost for ever. Trust benevolence above, With mind resign'd and steady; Serene yon dreadful field I see, I'VE been shopping-I've been shopping To John Brown's in Regent Street, And I'm hopping-and I'm hopping With his shoes upon my feet. I've been roaming-I've been roaming, And I'm coming-and I'm coming I've been roaming-I've been roaming I've been roaming-I've been roaming And I'm coming-and I'm coming FAREWELL, LOVE. WILT thou say farewell, love, I'll still be thine, and thou'lt be mine. I'll still be thine, and thou'lt be mine, Let not others' wile, love, I'll still be thine, and thou'lt be mine, A WEARY LOT IS THINE. A WEARY lot is thine, fair maid, To pull the thorn thy brow to braid, A lightsome eye, a soldier's mien, A doublet of the Lincoln green, My love! No more of me you know. "This morn, merry June, I trow, The rose is budding fain; But she shall bloom in winter snow, Ere we two meet again.'— He turned his charger as he spake, He gave his bridle reins a shake, Said, 'Adieu for evermore, My love! And adieu for evermore.' IT WON'T BE MY FAULT IF I DIE AN OLD My mother pretends for a wife I'm too young, But let her look back, she'll soon hold her tongue; Sweet gentlemen, don't be a moment in fear, Mother preaches for ever against men, the vile sex, But, between you and I, this she says only to vex, For I know that she thinks you all charming. Three husbands she has had in the course of her life, Now I only want one, sir, "pray who'll have a good wife ?" Now men don't be stupid and look half afraid. Men boast they are kind, and easily had, Although I'm turned one-and-twenty. But that handsome man, there-O, what have I said, At her fate no one lamented. The marchants' darter died soon arter, OH, CRUEL! OH, cruel vas my parents that forc'd my love from me, And cruel vas the press-gang that took him out to sea; And cruel vas the little boat that rowed him from the strand, And cruel vas the great big ship that sail'd him from the land. Too rol, too rol, &c. Oh! cruel vas the vater that bore my love from Mary, And cruel vas the fair vind that vouldn't blow con trary; And cruel vas the boatswain, the captain and the men, leg, Now he's oblig'd to fiddle for't, and I'm oblig'd to beg; A vagabonding vagrant, and a rantipoling wife, downs of life. |