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 |
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AIR V.
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Ambition lik Jack-o'-the-Lanthorn bewitches;Ambition like Jack-o'-the Lanthorn bewitches;
And leads; you benighted through dirt and through ditches.
Dol de dol, &c.
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Your griping for gold, a beggarly itch is;Your griping for gold, a beggarly itch is;
And virtue, tho' humble, looks down upon riches.
Dol de dol, &c,
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Your great men, and statesmen, the higher their pitch is,Your great men, and statesmen, the higher their pitch is,
By climbing the broader, but shew us their breeches.
Dol de dol, &c.
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