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The songs of Joseph Mather

Mather, Joseph (1737-1804)

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 I. 
Song I. THE FILE HEWER'S LAMENTATION.
 II. 
Song II. THE AUTHOR'S PETITION TO FORTUNE.
 III. 
Song III. MR. BATTY'S MULE.
 IV. 
Song IV. BAD LUCK TO THE CROW AND THE OWL.
 V. 
Song V. SPENCE BROUGHTON'S LAMENT.
 VI. 
Song VI. BUGGY EYRE.
 VII. 
Song VII. NELL AND JOS.
 VIII. 
Song VIII. TIMBER-LEGG'D HARRY.
 IX. 
Song IX. SHEFFIELD RACES. No. 1.
 X. 
Song X. SHEFFIELD RACES. No. 2.
 XI. 
Song XI. JEZEBEL'S DAUGHTER.
 XII. 
Song XII. JEZEBEL'S DAUGHTER.
 XIII. 
Song XIII. JOHN OLDHAM'S DISASTER.
 XIV. 
Song XIV. BEN EYRE.
 XV. 
Song XV. FRANK FEARNE.
 XVI. 
Song XVI. LOXLEY EDGE.
 XVII. 
Song XVII. STEVENS & LASTLEY'S EXECUTION.
 XVIII. 
Song XVIII. THE DERBYSHIRE FARMER.
 XIX. 
Song XIX. THE CASTIGATION.
 XX. 
Song XX. FISH AND TOMMY TICKTACK.
 XXI. 
Song XXI. DR. KELLY.
 XXII. 
Song XXII. THE HEN-PECKED HUSBAND.
 XXIII. 
Song XXIII. THE CROOKES ROGUE.
 XXIV. 
Song XXIV. NELL AND THE JOURNEYMAN HATTER.
 XXV. 
Song XXV. HALLAMSHIRE HAMAN.
 XXVI. 
Song XXVI. SANCHO.
 XXVII. 
Song XXVII. BRITONS, AWAKE.
 XXVIII. 
Song XXVIII. TRUE REFORMERS.
 XXIX. 
Song XXIX. NORFOLK-STREET RIOTS.
 XXX. 
Song XXX. THE BRAWN.
 XXXI. 
Song XXXI. ELEGY ON R. CLAY, ESQ.
 XXXII. 
Song XXXII. THE BLACK RESURRECTION.
 XXXIII. 
SONG XXXIII. RADDLE-NECK'D TUPS.
 XXXIV. 
SONG XXXIV. NOTHING LIKE LEATHER.
 XXXV. 
SONG XXXV. THE COCK-TAIL LADY.
 XXXVI. 
SONG XXXVI. SHOUT 'EM DOWN'S BARM.
 XXXVII. 
SONG XXXVII. THE BLIND FIDDLERS.
 XXXVIII. 
SONG XXXVIII. GOD SAVE GREAT THOMAS PAINE.
 XXXIX. 
SONG XXXIX. THE GUINEA CLUB FEAST.
 XL. 
SONG XL. THE NETHER GREEN LAD.
 XLI. 
SONG XLI. THE JUSTASS.
 XLII. 
SONG XLII. THE OWL'S COMMISSION.
 XLIII. 
SONG XLIII. HE'S OUT OF COMMISSION, BOYS.
 XLIV. 
SONG XLIV. WATKINSON AND HIS THIRTEENS.
 XLV. 
SONG XLV. BANG BEGGAR.
 XLVI. 
SONG XLVI. WATKINSON'S REPENTANCE.
 XLVII. 
SONG XLVII. TAPE ALLEN.
 XLVIII. 
SONG XLVIII. THE THANKSGIVING.
 XLIX. 
SONG XLIX. REPENTANCE.
 L. 
SONG L. THE ROYAL GEORGE
 LI. 
SONG LI. THE VALENTINE.
 LII. 
SONG LII. THE COCK-TAIL FEAST.
 LIII. 
SONG LIII. ROUNDLEGS.
 LIV. 
SONG LIV. THE FACE CARD.
 LV. 
SONG LV. THE RIMSEY OLD MAN.

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Song XXVIII. TRUE REFORMERS.

Come, ye patriots bold, whose affections are cold
Towards tyrannical monsters' laws,
Let's true friendship display, and comem'rate the day
That our brethren escap'd from their foes:
When the bloodhounds of state were most insatiate
For the lives of brave Hardy and friends,
Heaven lent her kind aid to those mortals betray'd,
And redeem'd them from ruffians and fiends.
When arraignd at the bar, Hardy shone like a star,
Though opposed by the infamous Ross;
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But alas, to be brief, his poor wife died with grief—
Ah, who can compensate his loss.
Consolation to Muir, may his heaven be secure—
Skirving's, Palmer's, Yorke's, Marg'rot's, and P---'s;
Let's not Gerrald forget, nor the least patriot,
Whose characters admit of no stain.
'Twould be cruel to o'erlook Erskine, Gibbs, and H. Tooke,
Who defeated their wicked design;
May Thelwall and the rest with good juries be blest,
And their souls through eternity shine.
Into ruin we sink, England's now on the brink,
By its infernal wise men's exploits;
Swift destruction to all who our lives do enthrall
And invade constitutional rights.
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