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The Poetical Works of Henry Brooke

... In Four Volumes Octavo. Revised and corrected by the Original Manuscript With a Portrait of the Author, and His Life By Miss Brooke. The Third Edition
Brooke, Henry (1703?-1783)

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58

AIR XXXII.

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Tune, “Ye Commons and Peers.”

1st Shep.
Behold, from old times,
Through all customs, and climes,
The meed of ambition, and pride!
'Tis a gift, my good sirs,
For him who, with spurs,
On the back of his country would ride.
Dol de rol, &c.

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