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THE BRAZEN PILLAR NEAR COVENTRY.

There are your horses, six in number; count 'em;
So quiet that an alderman might mount 'em.
These seven roads, a sort of seven dials,
Will lead you to your several knightly trials!
And when again we altogether meet,
We follow him who boasts the greatest feat.
Are you agreed, Sir Knights?

Knights.
We are, we are.

St. Geo.
Then just one glass of grog and a cigar
Before we part: I own I love the weed.

Kni.
And I. And I.

St. Geo.
Then for the road.

Omnes.
Agreed.

SONG.—ST. GEORGE.
Air—“Hurrah for the road.”
Hurrah! on horseback, off we goes!
Hurrah! the world we will scour;
And if each knight but follows his nose,
We shall do it in half an hour.
So arm in arm we'll go down the street,
Where our coursers are bestow'd,
And the instant we our lunch complete
Then hurrah! hurrah! for the road.

[Exeunt R. and L.